Metaphors in Architecture and Urbanism
An Introduction
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.
Overview Chapters
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Frontmatter
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Contents
Seiten 5 - 8 -
Préface
Seiten 9 - 12 -
Introduction
Seiten 13 - 30 -
Architectural/urban metaphorology
My Home Is My Symptom
Seiten 33 - 46 -
Metaphors in Architecture - a Metaphor?
Seiten 47 - 58 -
Référence métaphorique et référence métonymique
Seiten 59 - 70 -
Naming Things
Seiten 71 - 88 -
From Design Generator to Rhetorical Device
Seiten 89 - 104 -
Skins in Architecture
Seiten 105 - 122 -
A new Urban Question 3
Seiten 123 - 132 -
Semper's Metaphor of the Living Building
Seiten 133 - 146 -
Organic Metaphors and Urban Causalities
Seiten 147 - 158 -
Metaphors as medium
Remains of War
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Calibrating Metaphors and Tuning Places
Seiten 175 - 184 -
The Promotion of the Architectural Model
Seiten 185 - 200 -
Soft Monstrosities
Seiten 201 - 216 -
Video Game Spaces as Architectural Metaphors
Seiten 217 - 226 -
Diagram, Plan and Metaphor
Seiten 227 - 242 -
Crystals
Seiten 243 - 264 -
Paradoxes et ambiguïtés de la métaphore en architecture
Seiten 265 - 272 -
The metaphor project
The Hidden Pavilion
Seiten 275 - 280 -
« Pour que la vérité soit vertigineuse, elle doit choisir d'avoir infiniment tort »
Seiten 281 - 288 -
Authors
Seiten 289 - 298 -
LIST OF FIGURES/COPYRIGHTS
Seiten 299 - 302
15 July 2013, 302 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8376-2372-7
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