Week 5 : Language & semiotices

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• Semiotics in Architecture has been subject to a considerable amount of conjecture and debate. There are several theories as to what semiotics is in architectural terms, and there is even debate amongst linguists

• each built form has a unique language that speaks to us literally, contextually, physically, and philosophically, regardless of whether it intends to or not. It is the human condition to interpret our surrounds and beyond basic function, context is also relevant to the meanings we find.

• Christine Phillips Theory Essay - Whiteread through the semiotics of Eisenman

Introduction books

Cultural TheorySemioticsLiterary/Critical Theory

Roland BarthesBy Graham AllenRoutledge – 2003 – 192 pages

Graham Allen is a lecturer in English at University College, Cork. He is the author in Routlede's New Critical Idiom series and has published widely in literary theory and in the literature of the Romantic period

Roland BarthesThe Eiffel tower

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• The Eiffel Tower (French: La tour Eiffel, [tuʁ ɛfɛl]) is an iron lattice tower located on the Champ de Mars in Paris. It was named after the engineer Gustave Eiffel, whose company designed and built the tower.

• The tower is 324 meters (1,063 ft) tall• Construction started28 January 1887• Completed15 March 1889• Opening31 March 1889• Architect Stephen Sauvestre• Structural engineer Maurice Koechlin,

Émile Nouguier

language of lovers • French language • static• Resistance modernity rocket,stem,derrick,phallus,lighting rod

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Barthes on the Eiffel

Barthes on the Eiffel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfhvFLrS3rA

au revoir Eiffel

Tokyo Tower (東京タワー  Tōkyō tawā?)

• is a communications and observation tower located in the Shiba-koen district of Minato, Tokyo, Japan. At 333 metres (1,093 ft), it is the second-tallest structure in Japan. The structure is an Eiffel Tower-inspired lattice tower that is painted white and international orange to comply with air safety regulations.

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Big Ben• The tower is officially known as the Elizabeth Tower, renamed as such to

celebrate the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II (prior to being renamed in 2012 it was known as simply "Clock Tower")

• The tower was completed in 1858

Azadi tower Tehran.Iran

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIWpg-GmRhY

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