ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the Hopi experience of architecture and other built environments from this distinctly anthropological stance and by so doing suggest some of the deeper realms of meaning that contribute to the mystique of Pueblo architecture and the later regional style it has influenced. It focuses on Navajo Space Metaphors to understand and experience architecture. The chapter also focuses on the vernacular, which, aptly named, is like a language in being a social fact. It is distinctly anthropological in several senses. The chapter is concerned with the cultural, in this case the metaphorical, dimension of architecture. It focuses on the vernacular, which, aptly named, is like a language in being a social fact. The chapter summarizes several examples drawn from world ethnographic literature as series of cases (or texts). It argues that the "meaning" of Pueblo architecture and its enchantment is not inherent in it but has been attributed to it in the ancient past of myth.
