I just came back from Autodesk University conference with a great experience. This year the virtual conference is really a nice feature allowing people to watch all the lectures online. The class I taught is not broadcasted though, but I am very pleased to have 103 attendance singed my class: Maya conceptual design integrated with BIM (building information model).

I believe value can be classified as two types based on the cognitive level, deep structure and surface structure. As Mario Gandelsonas described in his essay Linguistics of Architecture, “The deep structure is made up of syntactic integers which are a set of irreducible formal oppositions which become manifest in an actual environment (surface structure) via a set of transformational rules and operations.” Is value universal?  I believe only the deep structure generated values are universal. For example, aesthetics related with the golden section, ...

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By examine Richard Haas’ mural between 1970s to 1990s in the context of postmodernism, I try to answer the following question, what is the value of mural painting when the essence of its architectural canvas –presumed rational value of structures, representations, methodologies of origins and ends, and deductive process - has been shown to be a simulacrum? The paper argued that Haas’ mural, as a dis-simulacrum, leaves untouched difference between reality and illusion. His work exposed the lost ...

In Barthe’s theory of semiotics, language is inherently unstable. This theory might be explained in the sociological triangle which includes percept, a concept, and a representation. As described by Charles Jencks in his book Semiology and Architecture, “In most cases, there is no direct connection between word and a thing. They are just simply the relations between languages, thought and reality.” For instance, the English character string “A” “P” “P” “L” “E” only ...