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"Der Strukturalismus beruht auf der Grundannahme, dass Phänomene nicht isoliert auftreten, sondern in Verbindung mit anderen Phänomenen stehen. Der Bereich des Beobachtbaren wird eingeteilt in strukturell beschreibbare und strukturell nicht beschreibbare Sachverhalte. Die beschreibbaren Phänomene werden segmentiert. Zwischen den Segmenten wird ein Zusammenhang (re)konstruiert. Dabei ist unter Umständen eine den Segmenten zugrunde liegende weitere (abstraktere) Beschreibungsebene anzusetzen, auf der wieder eine Segmentierung ihrer Einheiten möglich ist."
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[Structuralism] is a way of thinking about the world in terms of structures, of looking on culture as a system of structures. Its aim, roughly, is to do for architecture or literature or religion or politics or fashion or any of the other multifarious components of culture what grammar does for language, namely, to explain how these systems work and how these systems generate meanings for the people who use them. (Gary Stevens, The Reason Architect, 321.)
While structuralism still promises empirically confirmable data, the important difference in structuralism and modernism is over the philosophical issue of reductionism. Reductionism is the process of reducing complex phenomena into smaller units for the purpose of study, for example, the reduction of human thoughts into the movement of electrons. Modernism pushes reductionism, while structuralism is opposed. Structuralism makes use of sociocultural studies in its analysis of the world, but reductionism is opposed to this possibility.
Structuralism has had one of its greatest impacts on architecture through semiotics. Semiotics is the study of language. There are three pieces to language according to semiotics: The word (sign), the utter sound or written symbol (signifier), and what it stands for (the signified). According to structuralism, what the author meant by the text is irrelevant or at the least only partly relevant to the actual meaning of text. This applies to architecture in that a building can come to signify more than the architect meant or something wholly different than what he meant.
Modernism in the form of functionalism takes a singular approach to architecture, the design of space. Structuralism on the other hand takes a holistic approach to architecture.
Functionalism was a reductive approach, analyzing a building into spaces each of which was allotted a single static function. Structuralism encouraged a holistic, dynamic view of design, and emphasized that spaces carried meaning to their inhabitants that had to be taken into account. Functionalism generated anonymous, monotonous spaces that pretended such meanings did not exist, so denying the essential qualities of humans
Functionalist claimed to be designing for only function and that their aesthetic (the engineer aesthetic according to Corbusier) symbolized nothing but function. Semiotics in attacking the International style showed that this was impossible since all objects function as signs, and therefore there could never be such a thing as unstylistic architecture.
Structuralism in architecture could only be understood fully by the architect and the architectural critic. There are many historical allusions, but these are not understood by the general public. (source: [link])
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[Structuralism] is a way of thinking about the world in terms of structures, of looking on culture as a system of structures. Its aim, roughly, is to do for architecture or literature or religion or politics or fashion or any of the other multifarious components of culture what grammar does for language, namely, to explain how these systems work and how these systems generate meanings for the people who use them. (Gary Stevens, The Reason Architect, 321.)
While structuralism still promises empirically confirmable data, the important difference in structuralism and modernism is over the philosophical issue of reductionism. Reductionism is the process of reducing complex phenomena into smaller units for the purpose of study, for example, the reduction of human thoughts into the movement of electrons. Modernism pushes reductionism, while structuralism is opposed. Structuralism makes use of sociocultural studies in its analysis of the world, but reductionism is opposed to this possibility.
Structuralism has had one of its greatest impacts on architecture through semiotics. Semiotics is the study of language. There are three pieces to language according to semiotics: The word (sign), the utter sound or written symbol (signifier), and what it stands for (the signified). According to structuralism, what the author meant by the text is irrelevant or at the least only partly relevant to the actual meaning of text. This applies to architecture in that a building can come to signify more than the architect meant or something wholly different than what he meant.
Modernism in the form of functionalism takes a singular approach to architecture, the design of space. Structuralism on the other hand takes a holistic approach to architecture.
Functionalism was a reductive approach, analyzing a building into spaces each of which was allotted a single static function. Structuralism encouraged a holistic, dynamic view of design, and emphasized that spaces carried meaning to their inhabitants that had to be taken into account. Functionalism generated anonymous, monotonous spaces that pretended such meanings did not exist, so denying the essential qualities of humans
Functionalist claimed to be designing for only function and that their aesthetic (the engineer aesthetic according to Corbusier) symbolized nothing but function. Semiotics in attacking the International style showed that this was impossible since all objects function as signs, and therefore there could never be such a thing as unstylistic architecture.
Structuralism in architecture could only be understood fully by the architect and the architectural critic. There are many historical allusions, but these are not understood by the general public. (source: [link])
well ... brain food
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And great description about Structuralism too! I'll read more from that blog
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