Rethinking Architecture| A reader in cultural theory

A seat tells me first of all that I can sit down on it. But if the seat is a throne, it must do more than seat one: it serves to ...

2 the ogive has no structural value, even if it gives the opposite impression; rather, it is the webs of the ogival vault that h ...

centuries the same sign vehicle, in the light of different subcodes, has been able to connote diverse things. Indeed, in the nin ...

common view one is dealing there with functional objects of an unequivocally indicated, and thus univocally communicative, natur ...

defining them with precision, we might be in a better position to understand and classify, at least from the point of view of se ...

The trouble is that this geometric code would not pertain specifically to architecture. Besides lying behind some artistic pheno ...

such; there is only a structural logic, or structural conditions behind architecture and architectural signification conditions ...

The point is not that in articulating a church, for example, the architect is in the first place obeying a socio-architectural p ...

MASS APPEAL IN ARCHITECTURE If architecture is a system of rhetorical formulas producing just those messages the community of us ...

inserting himself into a given economy and technology and trying to embrace the logic he finds there, even when he would like to ...

anthropologist, a psychologist, an ideologist, etc., and we will return to that shortly. But first we might consider the peculia ...

repertories. This means not that the referent is non-existent, but that it is the object of other sciences (physics, biology, et ...

One might at this point be left with the idea that having the role of supplying ‘words’ to signify ‘things’ lying outside its pr ...

6 Abbot Suger, Oeuvres complètes de Suger, Richard Albert Lecoy de la Marche, ed., Paris Abbot Suger, Abbot Suger on the Abbey ...

14 On these, and on the codes that follow, see Klaus Koenig, 1964, op. cit., pp. 38–52, ‘L’articolazione del linguaggio architet ...

HOW AN EXPOSITION EXPOSES ITSELF In contemporary expositions a count ry no longer says, ‘Look what I produce’ but ‘Look how smar ...

the most important one. More important are the symbolic connotations that the throne must communicate and whose communication re ...

PART IV POSTMODERNISM ...

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POSTMODERNISM Postmodernism is often understood in opposition to modernism, as a corrective movement that comes after—‘post’—mod ...