| Preface | ||
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Book Format
Acknowledgements |
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| 1 | Introduction | |
| 2 | From Things toward Meaning | |
| 2.1 Things and things in themselves | 2.2 Objects and concepts | |
| 2.3 Understanding and judgment | ||
| 2.4 Observable and relational properties | ||
| 2.5 Function and complexity | ||
| 3 | Our World of Signs | |
| 3.1 Signs and communication | 3.2 Iconic, symbolic and indexical signs | |
| 3.3 Semantics, pragmatics and syntactics | ||
| 3.4 Interpretation and metaphor | ||
| 3.5 Unity of content and form | ||
| 4 | The Aesthetics of Experience | |
| 4.1 Emotions and feelings | 4.2 Aspects of beauty | |
| 4.3 Aesthetics and the aesthetic | ||
| 4.4 Objects and "their" aesthetic | ||
| 5 | Type, Style and Ornament | |
| 5.1 Concepts and resemblances | 5.2 Type and objectivity | |
| 5.3 Style and subjectivity | ||
| 5.4 Configuration and ornamentation | ||
| 6 | Cause and Effect in Design |
| 6.1 Cause, effect, change and event | |
| 6.2 World and mind in causation | World-to-world causation |
| World-to-mind causation | |
| Mind-to-world causation | |
| Mind-to-mind causation | |
| 6.3 Powers of preference | |
| 6.4 Purpose, context and realization | Programming for purposes |
| Realization in context | |
| 7 | Language, Meaning and Design Narratives |
| 7.1 Language and thought | |
| 7.2 Language of and language about architecture | |
| 7.3 'Measurements' of meaning | 7.4 Design Narratives |
| From form to content and from content to form | |
| A Stair in the Roth Residence, Weil am Rhein | |
| The Philharmonic Hall, Berlin | |
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The Biomedical Sciences Research Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
8 | Meaning as Zeitgeist |
| 8.1 Virtuality and reality | |
| 8.2 Complexity and inclusion | |
| 8.3 Sustainability and outlook | |
| Notes and Bibliographical References | |
| Illustration credits and other illustration information | |
| Index | |