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Meaning in Architecture

This book, throughout its presentation of the elements of form
and space, has been concerned primarily with the visual aspects
of their physical reality in architecture. Points, moving through
space and defining lines, lines defining planes, planes defining
volumes of form and space. Beyond these visual functions,
these elements, by their relationships to one another and the
nature of their organization, also communicate notions of
domain and place, entry and path of movement, hierarchy and
order. These are presented as the literal, denotative meanings
of form and space in architecture.
As in language, however, architectural forms and spaces also
have connotative meanings: associative values and symbolic
content that are subject to personal