This section is the gateway to the various disciplines and approaches that discuss specifically the formal aspects of architecture and their meaning. There are many diverse and controversial formulations in semiotic and aesthetic theories that can be found in the related issue pages. Here you can find articles and worldwide links to useful online resources discussing architectural form, its communicative dimension, the social and historical determinants of its appreciation and interpretation, di../MORE

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This section is the gateway to the various disciplines and approaches that discuss specifically the formal aspects of architecture and their meaning. There are many diverse and controversial formulations in semiotic and aesthetic theories that can be found in the related issue pages. Here you can find articles and worldwide links to useful online resources discussing architectural form, its communicative dimension, the social and historical determinants of its appreciation and interpretation, disputes on the definitions of art and design, beauty and kitsch,..When submitting new content to this page, please check the "related issues" that deal with more specified subject matter, AND consider creating a new ISSUE PAGE especially defining the subtopic you want to focus and discuss.You can also relate regionalist buildings, socially activist, neighborhood upgrading, or community development projects, and experimental housing schemes to this page so that they are showcased and discussed within this context. But in order to start a specific discussion and exemplify this in some buildings, you can create a new ISSUE PAGE, and relate these buildings there.If you compose reasonable issue pages that will not be vetoed by the WA Editorial Board, you can continue to act as an ISSUE EDITOR for these pages.