ARCHITECTURE IN NATIVE AMERICAN IDIOM

Colorado Solar Hogan Demonstration

College of Environmental Design, University of Colorado/Boulder, 1987-1990

This Project was a collaboration with Dine Anthrpologist, Charles Cambridge, PhD.

According to an ancient myth, when the Navaho People (Dine) came from their previous world into the present world, the Twin Gods of War went to the sun, who was not yet a Navaho god, to accuse him of being their father. The sun lived in a solar house. He told the Twins to return to the People and tell them that in the future they would all live in houses like this...and the young people would show everyone how to make them.

Architectural study model for the Colorado Solar Hogan Demonstration, 1987.

Publication: WINDS OF CHANGE, AICES, Spring, 1989	Publication: NATIVE PEOPLES MAGAZINE, Spring, 1990	Publication: LOS ANGELES TIMES, February 26, 1990

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