Within the scope of the journal’s production, a prominent place
is taken by the strand of studies devoted to semiology, which also
motivated the achievement in 1966 of the IN/ARCH Prize. This is
a subject addressed with great precociousness by «Op. cit.» even
in comparison with other specialized periodicals, and which registered the collaboration of prominent authors, including foreigners, as well as numerous contributors and pupils, ranging
from architecture to urban planning to design and from figurative
arts to the various visual languages. Here we retrace the beginnings of the discussion inherent in the potential of the new semiological approach by re-reading some articles signed by De Fusco – either alone or in collaboration – highlighting the motivations and expectations placed in such a method both in historiographic and critical terms and in the direction of a hoped-for
resemantization of coeval design research.
