Broadbent, Geoffrey et al. — Signs, Symbols, and Architecture

Chichester, John Wiley & Sons, 1980. Hardcover. Smooth red marbled boards, gilt letters on spine; orange & illus. dust jacket, 446 pp. some BW illus. A collection of fourteen scholarly articles dealing with aspects of semiotics in architecture. Contents: Function and Sign: The Semiotics of Architecture / Umberto Eco -- The Architectural Sign / Charles Jencks -- The Deep Structures of Architecture / Geoffrey Broadbent -- The Sociology of Semiology / Xavier Rubert de Ventos -- A Componential Analysis of the Architectural Sign / Column / / Umberto Eco -- A Semantic Analysis of Stirling's Olivetti Centre Wing / Charles Jencks -- On Reading Architecture / Mario Gandelsonas and David Morton -- Notes for a Theory of Meaning in Design / Juan Bonta -- Building Design as an Iconic Sign System / Geoffrey Broadbent -- A Framework of Meaning in Architecture / Judith Blau -- An Introduction to Italian Developments in Architectural Semiotics / Fernando Tudela -- The 'Language' of Architecture / Emilio Garroni -- Structural Linguistics versus the Semiotics of Literature: Alternative Models of Architectural Criticism / Maria Luisa Scalvini -- Linguistics into Aesthetics Won't Go / Richard Bunt. VG- (DJ spine is well faded; former owner name written inside; otherwise nice.) .