ABSTRACT
Architecture’s primary function may well be to provide a communicative setting for cultures, one that speaks both intellectually and emotionally, creating attuned settings for significant human action. While engineers may be better equipped to solve building design problems in view of pragmatic use, structural efficiency, and energy sustainability, we as architects like to think we can contribute something of specific significance beyond those issues. It is Nevertheless Obvious That Living, Natural Languages, Such As English, Spanish, Greek, Or French, Constitute Our Primary Mediation Between Pre-Reflective Embodied Consciousness (With Its Motor Skills) And Intellectual Articulation. The disregard of language by architects in the process of designing is not as recent as it may appear. In the wake of nineteenth-century positivism and its increasing acceptance of specialization in all areas of knowledge as the only way “forward,” professional disciplines such as architecture became driven by instrumental efficiency.
