Architecture Mentalities and Meaning

<p>In order to function architectural theory and practice must be shaped to suit current cultural economic and political forces. Thus architecture embodies reductive logic that conditions the treatment of human and social processes - which raises the question of how to define objectivity for architectural mentalities that must conform to a set of immediate conditions.</p><p>This book focuses on meaning and on the physical and mental processes that define life in built environments. The potential to draw knowledge from aesthetics psychology political economy philosophy geography and sociology is offset by the fact that architectural logic is inevitably reductive cultural socio-economic and political. However despite the duty to conform it is argued that the treatment of human processes and the understanding of architectural mentalities can benefit from interdisciplinary linkages small freedoms and cracks in a system of imperatives that can yield the means of greater objectivity.</p><p>This is valuable reading for students and researchers interested in architectural theory as a working reality and in the relationships between architecture and other fields.</p>