Metaphors in Architecture and Urbanism : : An Introduction / / ed. by Andri Gerber, Brent Patterson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter transcript Backlist eBook Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Binotto, Johannes,; Boudon, Philippe,; Bronfen, Elisabeth,; Burioni, Matteo,; Böhme, Gernot,; Caballero-Rodriguez, Rosario,; Coyne, Richard,; Decq, Odile,; Eck, Caroline van,; Faustino, Didier,; Feringa, Jelle,; Gerber, Andri,; Gow, Marcelyn,; Günzel, Stephan,; Hauser, Susanne,; Roche, François,; Schurk, Holger,; Secchi, Bernardo,; Teyssot, Georges,; Younès, Chris,; Zitouni, Benedikte,
• HerausgeberIn: Gerber, Andri,; Patterson, Brent,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2014]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1. Aufl.
• Language: English
• Series: Architekturen ; 19
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (302 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Préface --; Introduction --; Architectural/urban metaphorology --; My Home Is My Symptom --; Metaphors in Architecture – a Metaphor? --; Référence métaphorique et référence métonymique --; Naming Things --; From Design Generator to Rhetorical Device --; Skins in Architecture --; A new Urban Question 3 --; Semper’s Metaphor of the Living Building --; Organic Metaphors and Urban Causalities --; Metaphors as medium --; Remains of War --; Calibrating Metaphors and Tuning Places --; The Promotion of the Architectural Model --; Soft Monstrosities --; Video Game Spaces as Architectural Metaphors --; Diagram, Plan and Metaphor --; Crystals --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783839423721; 9783111025230; 9783110661552; 9783110352856; 9783110370720; 9783110401219
• DOI: 10.1515/transcript.9783839423721?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Andri Gerber, Brent Patterson.

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.