Architecture of Soekarno Hatta-Cengkareng Airport: Semiotics Review for Cultural Studies

Abstract

This article aims to describe correlation between Airport Architecture as main gate of city, production of urban culture, and cultural studies, specifically in semiotics. This article starts from Chris Barker's statement about city and urban as text in his phenomenal book, Cultural Studies, Theory and Practice. City as a complex subject has been transformed as the representation of urban culture. In the post-modernism view, urban culture as cultural space and cultural studies' sites have significantly pointed to became communications discourse and also part of the identity of Semiology. This article uses semiotics of Saussure approach for the research methods.. The result of this article is describing the significant view of architecture science helps the semiotics in cultural studies. Soekarno Hatta Airport as main gate of Indonesia representing how the urban culture reproduce and duplicate. Architecture approaches the cultural studies to view urban culture, especially in symbol and identity in the post-modernism era.