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Metaphors in Architecture and Urbanism An Introduction Andri Gerber, Brent Patterson
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Architekturen (Bielefeld, Germany) ; Bd. 19.
- Architekturen
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture.
- Urbanism.
- Metaphors.
- Culture.
- Media.
- Film.
- Urbanity.
- Urban Studies.
- Space.
- Local Subjects:
- Architecture.
- Urbanism.
- Metaphors.
- Culture.
- Media.
- Film.
- Urbanity.
- Urban Studies.
- Space.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (303 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Gerber/Patterson (eds.), Metaphors in Arch. An Introduction
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2014
- Language Note:
- English
- Biography/History:
- Andri Gerber (PhD), born in 1974, is Professor for the History of Urban Design at the ZHAW in Winterthur. He is an expert of metaphors in the context of architecture and urban design. His research interests turn around the concept of space, from a phenomenological, a political and more recently from a cognitive perspective.
- Brent Patterson, architect, is working on a PhD in philosophy at Paris 8. He teaches history and theory courses at architecture schools in Paris including the Ecole Spéciale d`Architecture (ESA), where he is an associate professor.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 1 Contents 5 Préface 9 Introduction 13 My Home Is My Symptom 33 Metaphors in Architecture - a Metaphor? 47 Référence métaphorique et référence métonymique 59 Naming Things 71 From Design Generator to Rhetorical Device 89 Skins in Architecture 105 A new Urban Question 3 123 Semper's Metaphor of the Living Building 133 Organic Metaphors and Urban Causalities 147 Remains of War 161 Calibrating Metaphors and Tuning Places 175 The Promotion of the Architectural Model 185 Soft Monstrosities 201 Video Game Spaces as Architectural Metaphors 217 Diagram, Plan and Metaphor 227 Crystals 243 Paradoxes et ambiguïtés de la métaphore en architecture 265 The Hidden Pavilion 275 « Pour que la vérité soit vertigineuse, elle doit choisir d'avoir infiniment tort » 281 Authors 289 LIST OF FIGURES/COPYRIGHTS 299
- Notes:
- International conference proceedings.
- ISBN:
- 9783839423721
- 3839423724
- OCLC:
- 979948031
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