Architecture, Language, and Meaning: The Origins of the Built World and its Semiotic Organization (Approaches to Semiotics [AS], 49)

## Architecture, Language and Meaning affected the present study to its benefit is very great. Many colleagues, friends, and students have left an imprint on this book in direct and indirect ways, and it has often been the case that a chance remark or a brief conversational interaction has stimulated a train of thought which ultimately led to the clarification of the aims of this project. I must above all acknowledge the contributions of many students and friends in my graduate seminars at Yale and MIT whose lively, informed, and insightful conversations and enormous energies were crucial both in the launching of this project and in its continuation. My teachers at Harvard and my colleagues at Yale, MIT, and Cornell have been similarly generous with their time with someone perhaps overtly impatient to define the right questions to ask. The following list is partial, and I have tried to include all those with whom some (even momentary) personal interaction has affected the present report to its benefit:

The annual Münster Lectures in Philosophy, which started in 1997, have evolved as a highly renowned get-together of philosophers. The invited guest for the respective lecture gives a public talk and participates in a one- to two-day-colloquium with members of the Philosophical Seminar (staff and students) of the University of Münster. Lectures, contributions of participants and replies of the guest philosophers are published in this series.

Preface Overview: Linguistic and Architectonic Signs 1. Introduction 2. Tool Use, Object Manipulation, and Spatial Behavior 3. The Functions of the Built Environment 4. The Form of the Built Environment 5. Architectonic Evolution 6. Communication and Culture 7. Discussion Bibliography No detailed description available for'Architecture, Language, and Meaning'.