Architecture enters into this symbiosis as a figure of speech: Beyond requirements of commodity and stability, a building embodies semantic meanings. This happens in a twofold way; elements have denotative meanings identified as functional parts of the architecture code. Peter Eisenman foregrounded these elements (columns, beams, planes, voids) as a stark, self-referential vocabulary to create his iconic, generative houses (House I, II, II ... X). The houses express a formal, transformational grammar, a spare architectural meal for the rational regions of the brain. Building with highly abstract materials that have been denatured by applying dense white polymer paint over plywood, Eisenman erases even the sensual evocation of natural material. But as we see in Chameleon Effect, even this kind of minimalist reductionism never quite escapes from a symbolic or sensuous interpretation.
Ethan Loo works in practice in architecture. He studied at London Metropolitan University and the University of Sheffield, where he has written on interiority and the Chinese garden, and meaning-making in the postcolonial architecture of Macau. His Part I dissertation was awarded a commendation for the 2018 RIBA Presidents Medal.
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The core idea, in its most prominent form, is that architecture asa corpus of design ideas (realized or otherwise) features a set offundamental design and style elements which can be combined andrelated according to a set of rules (syntax), capable of constitutingor parlaying meaning (semantics), and subject to contextualsensitivity and internal or relational constraints on deployment andrealization (pragmatics). Beyond these structural parallels with basicfacets of natural language, it is held that the purposes andpossibilities of architecture qua language yield furtherparallels, best explained by the notion that architecture has, or evenis, a language. 2ff7e9595c
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