The Public Role of the Architect: Architecture is the Medium-What is the Message?

摘要

Communication is the very essence of architecture: a building's materials and fabric, form, and relationship with its environment convey encoded messages to the public and users interacting with it. While transmitting specific information about how the building is to be used and experienced, they also record the cultural and financial ambitions of those who commissioned it, the economic and sociopolitical structures and values embodied by its brief, and the architect's aesthetic intentions.