SYSTEMIC AND ARCHITECTURE: CURRENT THEORETICAL ISSUES

Systemics approaches towards architecture, traditionally within a structuralist framework (especially within a technological environment), may evolve in a non-reductionist way through:

- non-reductive considerations of the role of human requirements in the definition of inhabited spaces;

- acceptance of the use-perception dialogical relationship, and more generally of the art-science nexus, as being characteristic of architecture.

Likewise, there are theoretical issues in the development of systemic, particularly within the discipline of architecture, including:

- the role of the observer, in the constructivist sense and within the exceptions of scientific realism;

- the unpredictability of emergence, with its related limits (of purely ontological significance).