Metaphors in Architecture and Urbanism
An Introduction
1st Edition
Published on 15. March 2014
302 pages
978-3-8394-2372-1 (ISBN)
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Architecture and urbanism seem to be »weak« disciplines, constantly struggling for a better understanding of their nature and disciplinary borders. The huge amount of metaphors appearing in the discourse of both not only reference to their creative nature but also indicate their weakness and the missing piece strengthening their own understanding: a definition of space for architecture and of city for urbanism. But using metaphors in this field implies a problem - though metaphors achieve to bring opposites together, there remains the question how literal they can actually become in order to relate to these subjects properly. In this volume, several authors from various fields using different approaches discuss this question.
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- Cover Metaphors in Architecture and Urbanism
- Préface
- Introduction
- ARCHITECTURAL/URBAN METAPHOROLOGY
- My Home Is My Symptom: A Psychoanalytic Plea for Flawed Architecture
- Metaphors in Architecture - a Metaphor?
- Référence métaphorique et référence métonymique
- Naming Things. Terminology, Language Theory and Metaphorology from Alberti to Vignola
- From Design Generator to Rhetorical Device: Metaphor in Architectural Discourse
- Skins in Architecture. On Sensitive Shells and Interfaces
- A new Urban Question 3: When, Why and How some Fundamental Metaphors were used
- Semper's Metaphor of the Living Building: its Origins in 18th Century Fetishism Theories and its Function in his Architectural Theory
- Organic Metaphors and Urban Causalities
- METAPHORS AS MEDIUM
- Remains of War: Battlefields, Ruins and the Trick of Commemoration
- Calibrating Metaphors and Tuning Places
- The Promotion of the Architectural Model
- Soft Monstrosities
- Video Game Spaces as Architectural Metaphors
- Diagram, Plan and Metaphor
- Crystals. The Entropic Landscape
- Paradoxes et ambiguïtés de la métaphore en architecture
- THE METAPHOR PROJECT
- The Hidden Pavilion
- « Pour que la vérité soit vertigineuse, elle doit choisir d'avoir infiniment tort »
- Authors
- List of Figures/Copyrights
