ABSTRACT
While phenomenology as an influence continued through this period and on into subsequent decades in the work of many successful architects, there is a shift toward the linguistic theories born out of phenomenology, culminating in deconstructivism. The linguistic turn, as it has been called due to the focus on text as the dissemination knowledge, impacted much of the humanities and had a profound impact on architectural theory as well. Architects were closely aligning their design methods and theories with philosophers as they sought to advance meaning to include more than the immediate architectural elements. Alongside this evolution of architecture’s direct involvement through collaboration with philosophers, computers could now also be directly incorporated into the common office. As the use of computation became actualized in architectural practice, philosophical theories influence on architecture reaches a point of full collaborations between architects and philosophers. Computationally, the work of Stiny and Mitchell’s Shape Grammar’s continues to develop and take on more coherence through this period and the obvious relations to Derrida’s Of Grammatology cannot be seen as a pure coincidence. This and other direct uses of advanced computation challenged existing design approaches and offered previously unavailable ways to produce new concepts of design.
