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Estoa. Revista de la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo de la Universidad de Cuenca

 ISSN 1390-9274 ISSN 1390-7263

ARNAU AMO, Joaquín    GUTIERREZ MOZO, María Elia. Semiotics and deconstruction in architecture: a note on language and inhabitation. []. , 6, 10, pp.155-167. ISSN 1390-9274.  https://doi.org/10.18537/est.v006.n010.10.

This brief essay runs on the current, dominant at the time and now somewhat restful, which, under the heading of deconstruction, have responded recent works of architecture, some emblematic. It is argued, first, how the deconstructive option puts in crisis semiotics hypothesis that establishes the signifier-signified binomial. And it is found, then how an architectural reading that takes the idea of deconstruction literally and embodied it in the image of the building, is no more than a naive anticipation of what, if anything, will end up happening in everyday life. The conclusion is that the inhabitant deconstructs the living space from immemorial time, naturally and spontaneously, as he takes possession of it.

: Architecture; deconstruction; inhabitation; language; Semiotics.

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