Frances to Luis with many thanks... (1) The website of "World Architecture" and its article "Semiotics and Aesthetics" seems most relevant for my purposes. (2) The article in the "British Journal of Aesthetics" entitled "Semiotics, Aesthetics and Architecture" will be ordered, although semiotics is used there as a synonym for semiology. (3) From the "International Association for the Semiotics of Space" the semiotics of architecture and the semiotics of space by Martin Krampen are actually of semiology in the tradition of structuralism, which merely identifies semiology as a fine approach within that scope. (4) The article "Semiotics in Architecture and Industrial/Product Design" by Martin Krampen will also be ordered.
At my end, those topics dealing with "the semiotics of national law in relation to architecture" along with "the design of defensible architectural space" will also be searched. PS: Not to knock them, but there does seem to be a touch of "ecumenicalism" in some of these published ventures on architecture. ------ You wrote... The following may be useful to your inquiry: _http://www.worldarchitecture.org/theory-issues/?position=detail&; no=1&title= SEMIOTICS%20AND%20AESTHETICS_ (http://www.worldarchitecture.org/theory-issues/?position=detail&; no=1&title=SEMIOTICS%20AND%20AESTHETICS) _http://www.edicionsupc.es/ftppublic/pdfmostra/AR00101M.pdf_ (http://www.edicionsupc.es/ftppublic/pdfmostra/AR00101M.pdf) _http://bjaesthetics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/27/2/115_ (http://bjaesthetics.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/27/2/115) _http://www.jstor.org/pss/1511519_ (http://www.jstor.org/pss/1511519) ------ Frances originally to Luis with thanks... Sometime back you lead me into an architectural website called "arcspace" which is appreciated. Their address is (http://www.arcspace.com/index.htm) and they do have an internal search engine. The website would seem to be a regular newsletter for professional architects, but their home webpage gives no information on what they actually are or do. My main current interest in appreciating if a global theory of architecture is possible is to address the issue of semiotic signs in this architectonic field, so a search was done in their engine to find any entries on "semiotics" and "signs" with some surprising results. There are no entries on "semiotics" and the only entries on "signs" are as industrial panels in the common commercial sense. It of course may be the wrong website for seeking probes into philosophic and academic issues that deal with architecture. If there are other websites you might suggest that deal with these kinds of theoretic and semiotic issues could you please post them here.
