cial "sense organs" back into a system to correct its course, consolidate its form, or modify its output. Wiener had developed his theory of feedback through wartime research on electromechanical systems designed, in his words, "to usurp a specifically human function" (Martin, 1998).
Architecture is, ultimately, a public and social activity û theory, design and outcomes are communicated with, and impact, the entire community. The problem is that architects tend to be predisposed in their thinking and their way of expressing themselves by their personal background, focus, infrastructure, concepts and knowledge. However, they also are actively engaged in a social exchange of ideas and opinions; according to Bohm and Peat (2000), "Motivations, questions, and attitudes arise out of these dialogues, so that all research and theory, in the end, arises out of the whole sub-cultural matrix of science à when insight occurs, it emerges out of this overall structure of communication so that it obtains the full meaning within i
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