Architecture / Mimarlık
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Editorial How Doorknob Gets Its Meaning(Routledge, 2005) Doğan, Fehmi; Nersessian, Nancy J.Jerry Fodor’s (1998) Concepts: Where Cognitive Science Went Wrong (hereafter referred to as Concepts) and Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star’s (1999) Sorting Things Out: Classification and its Consequences (hereafter referred to as Sorting) represent orthogonal views of concepts and categories stemming from two very different philosophical traditions. Fodor focuses on theories of concepts, whereas Bowker and Star discuss what categories and classification systems are. For Fodor, concepts are mental particulars that apply to things in the world (p. 23).Article Citation - WoS: 9Citation - Scopus: 15Configurational Meaning and Conceptual Shifts in Design(Routledge, 2015) Peponis, John; Bafna, Sonit; Dahabreh, Saleem Mokbel; Doğan, FehmiConfiguration is defined as the entailment of a set of co-present relationships embedded in a design, such that we can read a logic into the way in which the design is put together. We discuss conceptual shifts during design with particular emphasis on the designer's understanding of what kind of configuration the particular design is. The design for the Unitarian Church offers an historical example of such shifts, authorised by Kahn's own post-rationalisation of the design process. We subsequently construct a formal computational experiment where the generation, description and re-conceptualisation of designs is rendered entirely discursive. The experiment serves to clarify the nature of conceptual shifts in actual design, and the reasons why a reading of such shifts cannot be based on discursive evidence only but necessarily requires us to engage presentational forms of symbolisation as well. Our examples demonstrate how a conceptual shift within a particular design can lead to the discovery of a new potential design world. In the historical case, the conceptualisation of a new design world remains implicit and inadequately specified. But the theoretical experiment allows us to make explicit how geometrically similar configurations that arise from the application of one set of generative rules may possess systematic but entirely unanticipated perceptual properties, subsequently incorporated in new generative rules.Article Citation - WoS: 11Citation - Scopus: 6I, the World, the Devil and the Flesh: Manplan, Civilia and H. De C. Hastings(Routledge, 2012) Erten, ErdemA Facebook group page set up in 2008 exclaims: ‘Nuneaton’s Judkins Site should have Civilia Built - Not hazardous waste!’ The group making this appeal was campaigning against a controversial reclamation plant for contaminated soil to be located in a former quarry and demanded instead the realisation of another project for the site which they described as ‘Civilia’: a revolutionary concept of a totally new environment. . . conceived by an award-winning architect writing under the pseudonym Ivor de Wolfe.