BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (HONOURS) IN ARCHITECTURETHEORIES OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBANISM (ARC61303/ARC2224)SYNOPSIS: REACTION PAPER (MARCH 2015) [5 MARKS]

NAME: Garnette Dayang Robert ID: 0315491LECTURER: Mr. Shen Fei TUTORIAL TIME: 4PM-6PMSYNOPSIS NO: 3 (GROUP B) READER TITLE: The Geometry Of Feeling

AUTHOR: Juhani Pallasmaa

The reading of ‘Semiotics and Architecture; Ideological Consumption or Theoretical Work’, by the authors, Diana Argest and Mario Gandelsonas proposed a need for a theory that is distinguished from architecture ideology.

The architectural theory grows out of this ideology and yet at the same this is radically against it. People thought that we were the center of the universe but, Copernicus opposed that ideology and came up with a theory that we are not the center of the universe. Copernicus received a lot of pressure to stop him from publishing his theories to the whole world and through this way of opposing ideologies in order to gain knowledge may have affected human progress throughout the centuries. In another way to put it is that the authors discuss to separate ideology from theory when it comes to architecture. I agree with this sentence as to because ideology is used to aid the practical functionality of architecture, but it should not be used as instructions to follow when designing, as ideology is man-made and can be manipulated. For example, Zaha Hadid designed the Vitra Fire Station in Germany, she designed base on her own liking, and it end up not catering for its purposes. Eventually firemen moved out to another building. It shows that a design can be manipulated to be aiding for the better or worse. Theory however helps to pinpoint the relationship between everything, like society, culture and the environment on how the architecture is being created.

The authors also talks about architecture theory similarly to the theory of semiotics. I’m not sure what does this mean but there’s three main things to understanding semiotics and those are the sign, signifier and signified and they are all different meaning but can relate to one word. A sign is a symbol that signifies what we see. A signifier is how one relates through image to the sign when one sees it. Finally, signified is when one sees something and relating the word to that ‘something’.

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