Rethinking Architecture| A reader in cultural theory

Under what conditions or rather with what precautions and what preliminaries would an urban semiotics be possible? This is the t ...

vocabulary of signification (for example, he lays great stress on the legibility of the city and this is a notion of great impor ...

of the city’ out of the purely metaphorical stage. It is very easy metaphorically to speak of the language of the city as we spe ...

the other significations; or, rather, putting on one side places uttered like signifiers and on the other functions uttered like ...

differentiate semantically among these centres, which, in fact, are indicated by railroad stations. In other terms, even in this ...

then explore these deep images of the urban elements. For example, numerous surveys have emphasized the imaginary function of th ...

it’s true that you must take endless precautions, in Paris, not to see the Eiffel Tower; whatever the season, through mist and c ...

has, if one may say so, both sexes of sight. This radiant position in the order of perception gives it a prodigious propensity t ...

among men, of a true Babel complex: Babel was supposed to serve to communicate with God, and yet Babel is a dream which touches ...

that to the marvellous mitigation of altitude the panoramic vision added an incomparable power of intellection. The bird’s-eye v ...

the bliss of sensation (nothing happier than a lofty outlook) does not suffice to elude the questioning nature of the mind befor ...

other, as though along a prone body, three functions of human life: at the top, at the foot of Montmartre, pleasure; at the cent ...

Tower is a paradoxical object: one cannot be shut up within it since what defines the Tower is its longilineal form and its open ...

seems disposed—if no constraints appear to stand in his way—to seek out a kind of counterpoint in his pleasures: this is what is ...

Umberto Eco Italian semiotician Umberto Eco (b. 1932) is a thinker of great versatility, whose interests span from the mediaeval ...

be understood as communication—then one of the fields in which it will undoubtedly find itself most challenged is that of archit ...

as ‘hole that permits passage to the inside’, and the entrance would recall to his mind the image of the inside: entrance hole, ...

That a stair has obliged me to go up does not concern a theory of signification; but that occurring with certain formal characte ...

when one is not availing oneself of the denoted inhabitability (or, more generally, the denoted utility) of the architectural ob ...

function’ would be rather naive unless it really rested on an understanding of the processes of codification involved. In other ...