Author: Donald PreziosiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The Semiotics of the Built Environment
Author: Donald PreziosiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Architecture, Language, and Meaning
Author: Donald PreziosiPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110808676
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The Meanings of the Built Environment
Author: Federico BellentaniPublisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110617277
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
This volume analyses the interpretation of the built environment by connecting analytical frames developed in the fields of semiotics and geography. It focuses on specific components of the built environment: monuments and memorials, as it is easily recognisable that they are erected to promote specific meanings in the public space. The volume concentrates on monuments and memorials in post-Soviet countries in Eastern Europe, with a focus on Estonia. Elites in post-Soviet countries have often used monuments to shape meanings reflecting the needs of post-Soviet culture and society. However, individuals can interpret monuments in ways that are different from those envisioned by their designers. In Estonia, the relocation and removal of Soviet monuments and the erection of new ones has often created political divisions and resulted in civil disorder. This book examines the potential gap between the designers’ expectations and the users’ interpretations of monuments and memorials. The main argument is that connecting semiotics and geography can provide an innovative framework to understand how monuments convey meanings and how these are variously interpreted at societal levels.
Cognition and the Built Environment
Author: Ole MöystadPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317282841
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Cognition and the Built Environment argues that interacting with our built environment, as users and as architects, is a cognitive process. It claims that architecture, in its form and meaning, is a basic, embodied level of human cognition. The assumption is that we and our built environment together form an intelligent system, a cognitive feedback loop between us and the world of which we are part. With this as a vantage point, the book discusses the meaning and intelligence of concrete architectural environments as well as the agency of the architect, of his client and of the user. The inquiry oscillates between abstract thought, topological models and cognitive semiotics, between pragmatist philosophy and the professional practice of planning cities, developing projects and using objects. Architecture serves more complex purposes than our caves, paths and landmarks did. Written for students and academics of urban design, urban planning and architectural theory, Cognition and the Built Environment argues that human cognition feeds on the interaction between thought, agency and built environment, and that architecture is the spatial form of this interaction.
Tourists, Signs and the City
Author: Michelle M. Metro-RolandPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317009339
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Drawing upon the literature of landscape geography, tourism studies, cultural studies, visual studies and philosophy, this book offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding the interaction between urban environments and tourists. This is a necessary prerequisite for cities as they make themselves into enticing destinations and compete for tourists' attention. It argues that tourists make sense of, and draw meaningful conclusions about, the places in which they tour based upon the interpretation of the signs or elements encountered within the built environment, elements such as graffiti and lamp posts. The writings of the American pragmatist Charles S. Peirce on interpretation provide the theoretical model for explaining the way in which mind and world, or thoughts and objects, result in tourists interacting with place. This theoretical framework elucidates three applied studies undertaken with foreign visitors to the Hungarian capital of Budapest. Based upon extensive ethnographic field work, these studies focus on tourists' interpretation of the urban landscape, with particular attention paid to the encounters with national culture, the role of architecture and the importance of the prosaic in urban tourism.
Multimodality in the Built Environment
Author: Louise J. RavelliPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134747977
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
This book provides an extended exploration of the multimodal analysis of spatial (three-dimensional) texts of the built environment, culminating in a holistic approach termed Spatial Discourse Analysis (SpDA). Based on existing frameworks of multimodal analysis, this book applies, adapts, and extends these frameworks to spatial texts. The authors argue that choices in spatial design create meanings about what we perceive and how we can or should behave within spatial texts, influence how we feel in and about those spaces, and enable these texts to function as coherent wholes. Importantly, a spatial text, once built, is also a resource which is then used, and an essential aspect of understanding these texts is to consider what users themselves contribute to the meaning potential of these texts. The book takes the metafunctional approach familiar from Systemic-Functional Linguistics (SFL) and foregrounds each metafunction in turn (textual, interpersonal, experiential, and logical), in relation to the detailed analysis of a particular spatial text.
The Meaning of the Built Environment
Author: Amos RapoportPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816511761
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The Meaning of the Built Environment is a lively illustrated study of the meanings of everyday buildings for their users. Professor Rapoport uses examples and vignettes, drawn from many cultures and historical eras as well as contemporary America, to explicate a new framework for understanding how the built environment comes to have meaning, both for individual people and whole societies.
The Mutual Interaction of People and Their Built Environment
Author: Amos RapoportPublisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110819058
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
Rethinking Architecture
Author: Neil LeachPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134796285
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Brought together for the first time - the seminal writing on architecture by key philosophers and cultural theorist of the twentieth century. Issues around the built environment are increasingly central to the study of the social sciences and humanities. The essays offer a refreshing take on the question of architecture and provocatively rethink many of the accepted tenets of architecture theory from a broader cultural perspective. The book represents a careful selection of the very best theoretical writings on the ideas which have shaped our cities and our experiences of architecture. As such, Rethinking Architecture provides invaluable core source material for students on a range of courses.
Author: Donald Preziosi