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Author : Donald Preziosi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Semiotics of the Built Environment written by Donald Preziosi and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Federico Bellentani
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110617277
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Meanings of the Built Environment written by Federico Bellentani and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-01-18 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Donald Preziosi
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 9789027978288
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (782 download)
Download or read book Architecture, Language and Meaning written by Donald Preziosi and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 1979 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Architecture, Language, and Meaning".
Author : Dr Michelle M Metro-Roland
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409490254
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)
Download or read book Tourists, Signs and the City written by Dr Michelle M Metro-Roland and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-11-28 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Amos Rapoport
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110819058
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Mutual Interaction of People and Their Built Environment written by Amos Rapoport and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2011-06-03 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ole Möystad
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317282841
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Cognition and the Built Environment written by Ole Möystad and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Louise J. Ravelli
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113474790X
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Multimodality in the Built Environment written by Louise J. Ravelli and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Neil Leach
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134796285
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Rethinking Architecture written by Neil Leach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-12-20 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Abraham Solomonick
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443882321
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)
Download or read book A Theory of General Semiotics written by Abraham Solomonick and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is devoted to the topic of general semiotics. It formulates some of the central laws and parameters of the paradigm of general semiotics, and illustrates them with various examples from branch semiotics – from the systems of semiotics of that are already in use in particular fields of endeavour. These laws and illustrations will prove useful for every distinct instance of branch semiotics, both those that are already well-established and those that will appear in the future.
Author : M. Krampen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135684723
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (356 download)
Download or read book Meaning in the Urban Environment written by M. Krampen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book was first published in 1979.
Author : Gregory Whistance-Smith
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110723840
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Expressive Space written by Gregory Whistance-Smith and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-01-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Video game spaces have vastly expanded the built environment, offering new worlds to explore and inhabit. Like buildings, cities, and gardens before them, these virtual environments express meaning and communicate ideas and affects through the spatial experiences they afford. Drawing on the emerging field of embodied cognition, this book explores the dynamic interplay between mind, body, and environment that sits at the heart of spatial communication. To capture the wide diversity of forms that spatial expression can take, the book builds a comparative analysis of twelve video games across four types of space, spanning ones designed for exploration and inhabitation, kinetic enjoyment, enacting a situated role, and enhancing perception. Together, these diverse virtual environments suggest the many ways that video games enhance and extend our embodied lives.
Author : Robert James McMurtrie
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317276523
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book The Semiotics of Movement in Space written by Robert James McMurtrie and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Semiotics of Movement in Space explores how people move through buildings and interact with objects in space. Focusing on visitors to the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, McMurtrie analyses and interprets movement and space relations to highlight new developments and applications of spatial semiotics as he proposes that people’s movement options have the potential to transform the meaning of a particular space. He illustrates people’s interaction with microcamera footage of people’s movement through the museum from a first-person point of view, thereby providing an alternative, complementary perspective on how buildings are actually used. The book offers effective tools for practitioners to analyse people’s actual and potential movement patterns to rethink spatial design options from a semiotic perspective. The applicability of the semiotic principles developed in this book is demonstrated by examining movement options in a restaurant and a café, with the hope that the principles can be developed and applied to other sites of displays such as shopping centres and transportation hubs. This book should appeal to scholars of visual communication, semiotics, multimodal discourse analysis and visitor studies.
Author : Amos Rapoport
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816511761
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (117 download)
Download or read book The Meaning of the Built Environment written by Amos Rapoport and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Arthur Asa Berger
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527571394
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Luxury and American Consumer Culture written by Arthur Asa Berger and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using concepts from semiotics, psychoanalytic theory, sociology, and Marxism, this book analyzes the role of luxury in American consumer culture. It offers case studies that deal with how our love of luxury affects our choices of automobiles, homes, restaurants, cruises, department stores, and hotels. It also adopts a global perspective and features analyses of luxury in China, Iran, Germany, Monaco, Russia, and Turkey by scholars from those countries.
Author : Geoffrey Broadbent
Publisher : Chichester, [Eng.] ; New York : Wiley
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Signs, Symbols, and Architecture written by Geoffrey Broadbent and published by Chichester, [Eng.] ; New York : Wiley. This book was released on 1980 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shaleph O'Neill
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1848000367
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Interactive Media: The Semiotics of Embodied Interaction written by Shaleph O'Neill and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-09-18 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author discusses the existing theoretical approaches of semiotically informed research in HCI, what is useful and the limitations. He proposes a radical rethink to this approach through a re-evaluation of important semiotic concepts and applied semiotic methods. Using a semiotic model of interaction he explores this concept through several studies that help to develop his argument. He concludes that this semiotics of interaction is more appropriate than other versions because it focuses on the characteristics of interactive media as they are experienced and the way in which users make sense of them rather than thinking about interface design or usability issues.
Author : Adam Jaworski
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1847061826
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Semiotic Landscapes written by Adam Jaworski and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Landscapes generate meaning and impact on three major areas of scholarly interest: language and visual discourse, spatial practices and global capitalism.
