Assignment: Discussion Board #5
Week of Feb 29-Mar 6
Module 6: Meaning: New understanding of dimensionality on architecture; plasticity and the removal of the frame; form and meaning as interpreted through language structure, emotion and realism; myths and the communication of meaning; phenomenology and experience of place; irony and wit in postmodern architecture; the diagram as access to non-historical meaning, self-referentiality and architecture accessing architecture.
Readings: Mitrović, Philosophy for Architects, 117-125, 128-131, 137-141, 148-166.
Leach, “Architecture of the Catwalk” in The Anaesthetics of Architecture, 55-70
Ballantyne, Deleuze & Guattari for Architects (excerpt – PDF)