Metaphors in architecture and urbanism : an introduction / txt
Andri Gerber, Brent Patterson (eds.).
- 302 pages illustrations, plans 23 cm. book
- Architecture v.19 .
Includes Index
Architectural/Urban Metaphorology -- My Home Is My Symptom: A Psychoanalytic Plea for Flawed Architecture / Johannes Binotto -- Metaphors in Architecture -- a Metaphor? / Gernot Bohme -- Référence métaphorique et référence métonymique / Philippe Boudon -- Naming Things. Terminology, Language Theory and Metaphorology from Alberti to Vignola / Matteo Burioni -- From Design Generator to Rhetorical Device: Metaphor in Architectural Discourse / Rosario Caballero-Rodriguez -- Skins in Architecture. On Sensitive Shells and Interfaces / Susanne Hauser -- A new Urban Question 3: When, Why and How some Fundamental Metaphors were used / Bernardo Secchi -- Semper's Metaphor of the Living Building: its Origins in 18th Century Fetishism Theories and its Function in his Architectural Theory / Caroline van Eck -- Organic Metaphors and Urban Causalities / Benedikte Zitouni -- Metaphors as medium -- Remains of War: Battlefields, Ruins and the Trick of Commemoration / Elisabeth Bronfen -- Calibrating Metaphors and Tuning Places / Richard Coyne -- The Promotion of the Architectural Model / Jelle Feringa -- Soft Monstrosities / Marcelyn Gow -- Video Game Spaces as Architectural Metaphors / Stephan Günzel -- Diagram, Plan and Metaphor / Holger Schurk -- Crystals. The Entropic Landscape / Georges Teyssot -- Paradoxes et ambiguïtés de la métaphore en architecture / Chris Younès -- The metaphor project -- The Hidden Pavilion / Didler Faustino -- «Pour que la vérité soit vertigineuse, elle doit choisir d'avoir infiniment tort» / François Roche.
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.
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9783837623727
City planning--Philosophy. Metaphor Architecture--Philosophy.