Towards a Systemic Approach to Architecture

Valerio Battista
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Valerio Battista: Politecnico di Milano

A chapter in Systemics of Emergence: Research and Development, 2006, pp 391-398 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The historical difficulty in defining architecture corresponds to the complexity and variety of the actions implied, to their multiple interests and meanings, to the different knowledge and theories involved and to its great functional and cultural implications for human life and society. Vitruvius gave a notion of architecture as the emerging system of the main connections of firmitas, utilitas and venustas. A more recent and flexible definition is William Morris’s, who conceived architecture as something regarding “all the signs that mankind leaves on the Earth, except pure desert”. Today we could agreed on a definition of architecture as a whole of artifacts and signs that establish and define the human settlement. To explore its dimensions, performances, multiple values, we need a systemic approach allowing us to recognize and act more consciously in the whole of its variables.

Keywords: architecture; project; cognitive system (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1007/0-387-28898-8_27

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