Frances to interested members...
To help realize whether any theory of architecture can be framed,
be the global theory only general or special or universal, it
seems to me that what may be needed from academy and industry
sources is a method of assaying and assessing and essaying the
field of architecture that is based on the science of review.
Such a science would use the means of critical logic and analytic
philosophy to address the tendency and activity and theory of
architecture. The science of review as posited by pragmatism is
deemed to be used mainly in addressing the arena of science,
whether the sciences are theoretical or practical or of review,
but it is also indeed deemed to be used in addressing such other
arenas as tech and philosophy and art and religion. The reviews
are typically culled by peers from the consensus of agreed
opinions that learned experts may have within the collective
community of their interest. The findings of the reviews are then
published for further evaluation, and then archived for any
future research or resource. All exploratory discussions leading
to any fundamental opinions would precede the reviews, thereby
affording a degree of freedom and flexibility before the eventual
reviews are posited. It seems to me that the field of
architecture should be made prone to this very act of review. If
a theory of architecture might emerge from this activity, then so
much the better for architecture.
