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3 - Multiplicity of Meaning in Twentieth-Century Theories

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2021

Paul Guyer
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Brown University, Rhode Island
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This chapter considers linguistic and phenomenological approaches in recent architectural theory. It argues that the analogy of architectural language is imperfect, and any plausible use of it has to include semantic and pragmatic as well as syntactic dimensions. The phenomenological approach to architecture pioneered by Rasmussen and recently developed by Steven Holl in both his writings and his work has to take account of function and construction as well as the aesthetics of the experience of architecture.

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Print publication year: 2021

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