Structuralism

"structuralism is a way of looking at the world that focuses on the recognition of permanent structures and the relationships between them."

"Structuralism is interested in defining the laws of transformation by recognizing permanent structures and the relationships between them."

Structuralism pinpoints the relationships between things and not just the thing itself. It is an attempt to help understand the materials at hand.

"The basis of the structural anthropology of Levi-Strauss is the idea that the human brain systematically processes organized, that is to say structured, units of information that combine and recombine to create models that sometimes explain the world we live in, sometimes suggest imaginary alternatives and sometimes give tools with which to operate in it. The task for the anthropologist, for Levi-Strauss, is not to account for why a culture takes a particular form, but to understand and illustrate the principles of organization that underlie the onward process of the transformation that occurs as carriers of the culture solves problems that are either practical or purely intellectual."

INTERESTING

" I dont invent, I remember." I found this quote by Aldo Rossi very interesting. From this quote, I understood that Rossi belives that history plays a big role in architecture now; and I completely agree with him. Many places around the world would not be where they are architecturally if it was not for the history or the past. That could be the history of that particular place or another place.


" One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people, and like memory, it is associated with objects and places. The city is the locus of the collective memory. The relationship between locus and citizenry then becomes the city's predominant image, both architecture and of landscape, and as certain artifacts become part of its memory, new ones emerge. This quote is also by Rossie. It came from page 130 of his Architecture of the City book. In his book, Rossi puts emphasis on the collective, which is the public realm. He lets his readers know that the city should be more important that any one's individual accomplishments.