Work
Function and Sign: The Semiotics of Architecture
Explore in the Atlas →Semiotic approach to how architectural forms communicate symbolic meaning — applied across ritual, memorial, commercial and authoritative space.
Ritual Memory Exchange Power
Details
- Type
- Essay
Classifications
- Holder
- Individual
- Source of authority
- Reason
- Subject
- Human centred
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Propositional
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Connections
- articulates Semiotics of Architecture (Function and Sign)
Referenced by
- Umberto Eco authored
Sources
- Umberto Eco. Function and Sign: The Semiotics of Architecture. In Geoffrey Broadbent, Richard Bunt & Charles Jencks (eds.), Signs, Symbols, and Architecture (Wiley), 1980.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Function and Sign: The Semiotics of Architecture." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/work/function-and-sign-the-semiotics-of-architecture/. Accessed July 17, 2026.