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The formalization of architectural design today supports the impact of the use of the computer in the architectural design and urban designs practices, from the parametric representations of buildings and cities until the artificial intelligence more sophisticated languages. My proposal starts with the definition of the professor Jonas Langer’s tree between ontogenesis, phylogenesis, and topogenesis and finishes with the definition of a cognitive human dialogic interaction between brains and computers, that could be useful, both, in architectural education, in the architectural and urban design activities and, finally, in the incorporation of the human interlocative powers of architecture in the cultural and historical development of the human minds. This discourse demands an enlargement of our theoretical foundations related to architecture and urban planning, starting with the criticism of the exclusive power of the Heidegger fundamentalistic phenomenology, in order to include the works by Edmund Husserl, Georg Simmel, Mikhail Bakhtin, Paul Ricoeur, and Lewis Mumford, opening an innovative way of PhD Research Dissertations and projects where social participation and real use are no more dangers or inconvenient issues, but crucial facts. Then, we will understand the origin of the good and healthy architectural design practices, and the history of human cultures will be clarified, the political pressures with fundamentalist historical explanations will be released, and the architectural and urban research of different points of view could develop in freedom again.
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Thornberg, J.M., Garcia, R. (2023). The Formalization of Architecture as a Social Dialogical Tool: An Introduction to Innovative Theoretical Frames in Architectural Design. In: Mora, P.L., Viana, D.L., Morais, F., Vieira Vaz, J. (eds) Formal Methods in Architecture. FMA 2022. Digital Innovations in Architecture, Engineering and Construction. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-2217-8_1
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