Word: structuralist
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...example, took a kind of phenomenological or experiential approach to meaning, attempting to force an examination of the ways in which the viewer’s interaction with the piece—the physical process of viewing—influenced its meaning. Many architects took a more linguistic or structuralist approach, examining the ways in which meaning is generated by the structure or syntax of architecture. Structuralist interpretation is analogous to diagramming a sentence; one focuses not on the semantic meaning of the whole (what the sentence actually “means” in the traditional sense...
...first book, Gynesis: Configurations of Women and Modernity, published in 1985, is part of the canon of post-structuralist feminist theory—a strain of theory that treats gender as a largely social construct imposed on biological differences. “I became fascinated by this group of people who seemed to be trying to understand the post-war world,” Jardine says...
...embraced both pedestrian and vehicular transport concerns and created spaces housing everything from a library’s hush to a stadium’s roar. They also have a penchant for layered flat planes that betray high, open air expanses. What unifies them all is an absorbing, vaguely structuralist style that manages to appear clean without being clinical...
...time election of Bill Clinton and the election and later repudiation of the largely Republican Congress of 1994 shows the nation as a whole moving toward moderation, a middle path between the two extremes. Similarly, there is value to both "structuralist" and "individualist" notions of Harvard. However, while members of Congress must compromise in order to be able to create legislation palatable to the majority, students at the College are not similarly constrained by pragmatic forces, and thus students have little incentive to question their own take on Harvard and synthesize the two perspectives...
...Core art history course I took, the majority of the writings were either Marxist, post-structuralist or post-modernist. The head TF of the course, who was fair in his tolerance of my opinions to the contrary, informed me that, indeed, the pedagogical goal was to "destabilize" the Western conception of art. So we read a large amount of Michel Foucault, whose connection to visual culture is entirely dubious...