The Sun's Influence on the Form of Hopi Pueblos (Classic Reprint)

These roof terraces and lateral doorways, ancient and modern, as a rule are situated on the same side of the houses their orientation is generally south or east or somewhere between these two directions. The axis of a row of such houses is naturally at right angles to this orientation, or approximately north by south. Let us analyze the probable cause that has led to the union of houses in rows and aim to discover the origin of their growth in this direction rather than in any other.

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