La capacitagrave; degli oggetti di significare egrave; una proprietagrave; complessa almeno quanto i modi dellrsquo;agire culturale a cui essi prendono parte. Non esiste un solo genere di design; proprio come non esiste un solo genere cinematografico. Accusare una sedia pensata come una scultura di essere scomoda egrave; allora altrettanto scorretto che accusare un film di fantascienza di essere poco realistico. Il design egrave; un fenomeno eterogeneo; spumeggiante; un gorgoglio di diversificazione che deve essere accolto nella varietagrave; ndash; a volte persino scivolosa ndash; delle sue manifestazioni. Ponendo a ciascun oggetto la giusta domanda interpretativa; che ne rispetti la diversitagrave; di genere. Questo libro propone una schematizzazione dei generi del design; messa a punto con strumenti appartenenti allrsquo;antropologia filosofica; allrsquo;estetica e alla semiotica. Non una mappa ma una "bussola" per navigare fra i diversi modi con cui il design specifica la capacitagrave; degli oggetti di significare.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. The Autopoiesis of Architecture is a spectacular intellectual achievement; ...By Daniela GhertoviciThe Autopoiesis of Architecture is a spectacular intellectual achievement; and a very rare elaboration of a systematic; comprehensive; and unified theory for contemporary architecture. The writing is remarkably clear and accessible; while at the same time elegantly complex and distinctly articulate. This is a highly instrumental work that is immediately actionable for architects and designers in both analytical and generative contexts; cohering; connecting and ordering a huge network of complex discursive; professional and academic threads. It leaves no stone unturned; and is equally inspiring for seasoned professionals as it is for emerging practitioners and young students. The first volume is a comprehensive discourse analysis that constructs a rigorous; systematic framework for productive discursive differentiation; debate and evolution. The second volume systematically elaborates a comprehensive new agenda for architecture; culminating in a lucid reflection/projection on Parametricism; the contemporary style of architecture that emerged globally and evolved exponentially since the mid-1990s; across professional practices; design research collaboratives and schools worldwide; in response to the emergence of a global; functionally differentiated post-Fordist network society in the crisis and eventual collapse of Modernism in the late 1970s. Perhaps the most radical aspect of this treatise is its stark contrast to the exponential proliferation of fragmentary; multivalent; transdisciplinary and partial theories reverberating throughout the communications of architecture. The dearth of systematic and comprehensive contemporary architecture discourse addressing the principles; values and heuristics that inform design innovation today has surrounded the release of this treatise in a flurry of debate; and catalyzed a high level of engaged and polarized public architecture discourse. After two decades of disruptive innovations that have continuously converged on the territory of architecture discourse; practice; academia from cultural; cybernetic; economic; scientific; and political directions; this cohering and unifying architecture treatise is long overdue!
