Amos Rapoport

Amos Rapoport (28 March 1929, Warsaw) is a Polish psychologist, professor, architect and one of the founders of Environment-Behavior Studies (EBS). He is the author of over 200 academic publications in this field, including books that have been translated into foreign languages, including French, Spanish, German, Persian, Japanese, Korean and Chinese. He has held honorable and visiting positions in many universities around the globe, is professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

His work has focused mainly on the role of cultural variables, cross-cultural studies, and theory development and synthesis. His influential book ''House Form and Culture'' explores how culture, human behavior, and the environment affect house form. Provided by Wikipedia