Abstract

Built form produces figures of spatial enclosure written into the ground. As a sign language architecture provides a script of space. Seen as a figure, each ground plan is a sign speaking about communal forms of living and the politics of sharing space. Architectural theory needs to provide a theory of interpretation of spatial recognition with respect to techniques of spatial denotation on the level of figure and ground. It established the fundamental distinction between interior and exterior together with architecture′s capacity to allude to individual perception and collective motivation. The language of architectural form requires recognizable signs with reference to the public character of their use; at this point the symbolic logic of architectural form corresponds with its geometrical and collective nature.