ABSTRACT
We started with a concern. The literature on architecture is torn between two versions of design process: a technological one (how a building responds to material and financial constraints) and another more social or more humanistic (how a building expresses a certain style, a certain period or a certain idea of what it is to inhabit a place). Architectural scholarship too often reproduces the very ambiguity of architecture between efficacy and symbols or, even more rudimentary, between function and form.
