To equip the students with the fundamental skills and knowledge of understanding the meanings embedded in design, analyzing and utilizing the social and cultural messages in design. To help them use their knowledge to understand the environmental meaning produced as a cultural formation, the role of landscape meanings in environmental evaluation, to teach them how to search for environmental evaluation, man-environment interaction and using decision making process in environmental design.

Basic terminology in semiotics and semantic analysis methods will be covered. As a system of indicators; examples of implementation and analysis in structured environment and landscape architecture will be emphasized. Definition of semiology; Indicator theories; Indicators as the elements that undertake the task of communicating with the environment; Three different dimensions of the semiology: syntax, utility, meaning; Factors forming the function and communication of semiotics; Signification according to indicator theories; The space that communicates with the environment; Transformation of the object as a component of the indicator; New image production from concepts: urban displays and analysis; Landscape iconography: interpretation of landscape elements in the context of semiology.