Education
University of Melbourne: B.Arch., 1954
Rice University: M.Arch., 1956
University of Melbourne, Post Graduate Diploma of Town & Regional Planning, 1962  

Teaching Area
Sociological/Psychological Concerns  

Memberships
International Committee of Architectural Critics
Fellow, Royal Australia Institute of Architects
Associate, Royal Institute of British Architects  

Academic and Professional Honors
Distinguished Professor in the School of Architecture and Urban Planning at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Distinguished Career Award of the Environmental Design Research Association, 1980
Senior Sabbatical Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts
Fellowship from the Graham Foundation Visiting Fellow of Clare hall, Cambridge (Life Member), 1982-83  

Registration
States of Victoria and New South Wales, Australia  

Teaching Experience
Professor at: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; University of Melbourne, Australia; University of Sydney, Australia; University of California at Berkeley; and University College, London.
Visiting Professor in: Israel, Turkey, Great Britain, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, India, Switzerland, and elsewhere.  

Professional Experience
Various offices, 1952-1961
Design consultant, 1969, 1972
Reports on Housing to World Bank (1980), Israel Ministry of Housing (1983)  

Research Interests
Amos Rapoport's ongoing research interests include cross-cultural and other comparative studies of environment-behavior relations (EBR); urban design, housing, vernacular design, and the built environments of developing countries. The last two also serve as 'model systems' for the construction of an explanatory theory of EBR. The latter forms part of his current emphasis on the relation of metascience (the scientific study of science) to environment-behavior studies (EBS). This includes, among others, the definition of the domain of EBS, unification and synthesis within EBS and with other (new) disciplines, the nature of theory and the identification of the mechanisms of EBR.   

Publications (Selected)
House Form and Culture, 1969
Human Aspects of Urban Form, 1977
The Meaning of the Built Environment, 1982 (updated edition 1990)
History and Precedent in Environmental Design, 1990
Thirty-three papers in Environment-Behavior Research, 1995
Culture, Architecture and Design (French and Spanish editions, 2003; English Edition in Press).

Research and Creative Activities
A variety of books, authored and edited, monographs and over 200 papers and articles on EBS, culture-environment relations, urban design, theory, etc.

Service
Editor-in-Chief of Urban Ecology
Associate Editor of Environment and Behavior
Member of Editorial Boards of many international journals
Board of Directors, EDRA (2 terms)