Coriandoli di senso. Meaning in Architecture, Over Time

Abstract

Meaning in Architecture is, on the one hand, a possibly significant text; on the other, a theme that has crossed recent decades of architecture, with different and varied meanings and pervasiveness. It is, therefore, necessary to frame the historical value and the political nature of a look towards the opportunity constructed by Jencks and Baird, on the one hand tracing the matrices of meaning and opportunity, on the other looking at the meanings with which the term meaning lends itself both in the cultural geography of the end of the twentieth century and, in fading and negative, in the more contemporary debate, where the theme is programmatically evaded and, at the same time, placed at the centre of planning and cultural actions that take advantage of partial and political readings of a theme that instead it urgently needs a new thematization.