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semiotics in architecture - soniya - 05-26-2019

Semiotics is the science that studies the different systems of signs that allow communication between individuals. Their modes of reception and functioning, in this way we can say that the semiotics of Architecture studies the symbols and the architectural language that buildings manifest or want to transmit.

Rethinking Architecture by UMBERTO ECO Wrote:If semiotics, beyond being the science of recognized systems of signs, is really to be a science studying all cultural phenomena as if they were systems of signs—on the hypothesis that all cultural phenomena are, in reality, systems of signs, or that culture can be understood as communication—then one of the fields in which it will undoubtedly find itself most challenged is that of architecture.

Most architectural objects do not communicate and are not designed to communicate but designed to be functional use.
Architecture as communication
There are many architects who visualize themselves more as communicators concerned with the meanings their designs might have to people who experience their buildings.  
Architects who are interested in how their buildings are interpreted should first ask themselves if assuming buildings communicate to people is a realistic expectation to place upon the interpreter passing by or through architecture.
A phenomenological consideration of our relationship with architectural objects tells us that we commonly do experience architecture as communication, even while recognizing its functionality. 

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