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PREDICTORS OF SPACE POWER: THE SEMANTIC ASPECT // ΠΡΑΞΗMΑ. Journal of Visual Semiotics. 2015. Issue 3 (5). P. 86-96

The space of social existence is considered as a “social reality, projected on its territory”. The spatial dimension of relations between society and government is understood as the phenomenon of the existence of special power spaces – contamination of architecture, landscape and regulating power relations. It shows the existence of predictors of the architecture and layout of these spaces of power, the semantics of which is a continuous differentiated, transformed and receives new historical, cultural, regional and individual psychological coloring.

Keywords: architectural environment, space of power, predictors, semantics

THE SEMANTIC POTENTIAL OF ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE ENVIRONMENT // ΠΡΑΞΗMΑ. Journal of Visual Semiotics. 2015. Issue 4 (6). P. 47-64

Architectural and landscape environment (spatial text) is considered as an important component spaces of social life. We discuss the possibility to extend submission to the spatial text by including natural formations. It is shown that the architectural value of the text occur in the process of operating architectonic, domain-functional and socio-symbolic codes. These codes serve as means of existence of the variety of functions of architecture. An appeal to the primary and secondary codes of interested and prepared subject is a complex condition of perception, understanding and assigning values of the architectural environment.

Keywords: architectural environment, architectural text, semantics of architecture, semantic universe, codes

THE URBAN SPACE OF POWER: THE DIACHRONIC DIMENSION // ΠΡΑΞΗMΑ. Journal of Visual Semiotics. 2018. Issue 3 (17). P. 170-178

The phenomenon of architectural and landscape spaces of power, showing the specificity of the relations between society and power, is considered. Asym metry of influence and other characteristic of power are clearly expressed in the organization of these spaces. Reproducible for thousands of years they are content due to the technology of power. Among the invariant features of the spaces of power: the symmetry of the architectural and compositional solutions (the presence of severe axis), the dominance of the ‘classical’ forms, the ensemble construction, the availability of space for demonstrations and so forth. The existence of specially organized territorial and spatial structures reveals the content, non-obvious connections and dynamics of mutual relations between society and government. Spaces of power are the object of reflection as an “image of power”, acquire a symbolic expression (verbal or visual), bearing a semantic load. The article uses the diachronic method of correlation of architectural methods of expression of power with the characteristic moments of the state of society. Identified sustainable and re-usable architectural decisions, traced the patterns of their development. It is established that the processes of formation and development of spaces of power are characterized by stages of both complexity and simplification of the environment. The nature and forms of their manifestation in the interiors and exteriors of modern objects of power of democratic communities are analyzed. Bringing the russian spaces of power in compliance with the requirements of the time is evaluated as a socially significant problem.

Keywords: city, social spaces, relations of society and power