Canon and Code. The language of arts in today’s World. Proceedings

What are the meanings of language arts in the present time? Architecture, art among the arts, in the age of recurring transformations of paradigms and expressive codes, is mostly an issue of communication and lost its fertile historical relationship with the arts. The legacy of the modern culture is still present producing language outcomes within a field of aesthetic expression on the one hand logical-rational and on the other intuitive-empathic. Is there a time of language? Is there a meaning of language depending on times? The language is transformed through neologisms, transcriptions and new arrangements. The hermeneutics of languages are expressed either by intelligibility (absolute or relative) or by the construction of a consensus through the use of intermediate codes defining conceptual boundaries and ways of representations? Adhesion to a linguistic expression does not occur due to the intelligibility of the language, and therefore consent is not obtained only through codifiable procedures. In this brief framework we can discuss if the architect still needs to equip himself with his own language, grammar, canons and codes. The conference aims to explore canon and codes in the languages of arts in present time considering genealogies, inventions, metamorphoses and contaminations.