ABSTRACT
Literary language is at odds with the unambiguous prose of technical specifications, and with rational "decision-making" discourses aimed at consensual design by committee, uses of language that are more commonly present nowadays. Contemporary Australian philosopher Jeff Malpas has demonstrated how place is a condition of consciousness in perception and how it is given with language. Literary language is at odds with the unambiguous prose of technical specifications, and with rational "decision-making" discourses aimed at consensual design by committee, uses of language that are more commonly. Language, when properly understood through phenomenological hermeneutics, is inherently poetic, originary, and polysemic, and contains the very possibility of retrieving cultural roots for an architectural expression which creates appropriate atmospheric qualities. Although the result might be in line with fashions, the architectural mainstream generally assumed theory and design discourse concerned nothing other than applied science or formal methodologies.
