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Peirce for Architects (Paperback)
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Peirce for Architects (Paperback)
Series: Thinkers for Architects
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Ideas gain legitimacy as they are put to some practical use. A
study of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) supports this
pragmatism as a way of thinking about truth and meaning.
Architecture has a strong pragmatic strand, not least as we think
of building users, architecture as a practice, the practical
demands of building, and utility. After all, Vitruvius placed
firmness and delight in the company of utilitas amongst his demands
on architecture. Peirce (pronounced 'purse') was a logician, and so
many of his ideas are couched in terms of formal propositions and
their limitations. His work appeals therefore to many architects
grappling with the digital age, and references to his work cropped
up in the Design Methods Movement that developed and grew from the
1950s. That movement sought to systematise the design process,
contributing to the idea of the RIBA Plan of Work, computer-aided
design, and various controversies about rendering the design
process transparent and open to scrutiny. Peirce's commitment to
logic led him to investigate the basic elements of logical
statements, notably the element of the sign. His best-known
contribution to design revolves around his intricate theory of
semiotics, the science of signs. The study of semiotics divided
around the 1980s between advocates of Peirce's semiotics, and the
broader, more politically charged field of structuralism. The
latter has held sway in architectural discourse since the 1980s.
Why this happened and what we gain by reviving a Peircean semiotics
is the task of this book.
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