Metaphors in Architecture and Urbanism : : An Introduction /

Metaphors in Architecture and Urbanism : : An Introduction / / 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 mis...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (302 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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