Discourses of Position: Ideology and Situation in Italy

It is inevitable that buildings relate in tangible ways to their users. While the initial proposition may verge on the axiomatic, the ensuing discussion need not remain so, for it is richly joined to the very nature of significance and to the roots of ideology. The physical qualities of the dialogue between building and body, the relations of thing to perceiving subject, seem some of the least revocable aspects of the complex play of signification and appropriation that characterizes architectural thinking and practice. This essay will discuss some of the moments in the arts when these are presented with particular acuity.

https://doi.org/10.35483/ACSA.Intl.1995.28

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John K. Edwards