LINGUISTIC IDENTIFICATION.ARCHITECTURE AND LANGUAGE: CONSTRUCTING IDENTITY IN EUROPEAN ARCHITECTURE C.1000-C.1650 Edited by Georgia Clarke and Paul Crossley Paul Crossley (born May 17, 1944) is a British pianist. Born in Yorkshire, his piano teacher was Fanny Waterman in Leeds. While a student at Oxford University, he was discovered by Olivier Messiaen and his wife Yvonne Loriod, who heard him play and immediately invited him to . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press (known colloquially as CUP) is a publisher given a Royal Charter by Henry VIII in 1534, and one of the two privileged presses (the other being Oxford University Press). . 2000, [pounds]45 This compelling discussion of style and nationality, and of the relation between vernacular and 'official' languages, sheds important light on the creation of modern Europe. Eleven essays by international scholars, providing a partial corrective to John Onians' determinist study of the orders in Bearers of Meaning (1988), focus on architectural and linguistic debates over style and national identity. They show how the search for a canon of architectural rules was likened to the literary imitation of the Latin masters. On such impeccably Classical foundations, architecture-language comparisons entered the mainstream of Western architecture so that the style of individual architects was likened to literary styles and architecture compared to eloquence. Paul Draper This article is about the musician. For the philosopher, see Paul Draper (philosopher). Paul Edward Draper (born 26 September, 1970 in Wavertree, Liverpool) is an English singer-songwriter and was the lead singer for the rock band Mansun. describes the relation between architectural stylistic choices and the range of languages spoken in Post-Conquest England. Caroline Bruzelius Caroline Bruzelius is the Anne M. Cogan Professor of Art and Art History at Duke University. She is an expert in medieval architecture [1]. She completed her undergraduate work at Wellesley College and received her Ph.D from Yale University in 1977. brings similar considerations of nationality to bear on her study of French Gothic in Central and Southern Italy in the thirteenth century. Deborah Howard, investigating Gothic and Renaissance in Scotland, wisely explains how 'the rapid transformation of society -- hegemony, religion, and economy -- makes the identification of any shared system of communication a complicated task'. Implicitly sceptical about the world of semiotics semiotics or semiology, discipline deriving from the American logician C. S. Peirce and the French linguist Ferdinand de Saussure. It has come to mean generally the study of any cultural product (e.g., a text) as a formal system of signs. and linguistic philosophers such as Umberto Eco Umberto Eco (born January 5, 1932) is an Italian medievalist, semiotician, philosopher and novelist, best known for his novel The Name of the Rose (Il nome della rosa) and his many essays. who claimed that, 'architectural language is an authentic linguistic system obeying the same rules that govern the articulation of natural languages', Caroline van Eck argues that, 'By their beauty buildings do not spell out some truth that originated outside the architectural domain', though she also sees them as 'a variety of human communication'. |
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