Raymond Williams’, “Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and
Society” raises interesting points and discussion about change within our
society. In particular he speaks briefly of his past, where he had returned to
Cambridge College from the war and within the four and a half years how much
the society and atmosphere of the college had also changed, “the fact is, they
just don’t speak the same language” (pg11).
The aim of his book was to generalise words from different
disciplines that converge but aren’t linked, to create keywords which can be
generalised and used by anyone to discuss or talk about something with intent
of the recipient knowing what is being discussed. It does not intend to be a
dictionary where a given meaning is set to each word or to create a glossary of
words but to create a general ‘playing field’ for all to use. “It is, rather,
the record of an inquiry into a vocabulary: a shared body of words and meanings
in our most general discussions, in English, of the practices and institutions
which we group as culture and society”.
Achim Menges’ “Computational Design Thinking” discusses the
relation of computation to architecture. “So what is computation, then? In relation to design, computation
is the processing of information and interactions between elements which
constitute a specific environment, the pivotal word being interactions.” With
that said, the aid of computation in architecture has led to many theories
being further developed such as parametricism and morphogenesis.
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