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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 missi...
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transcript Verlag,
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| Publisher Address: | Bielefeld : |
| Publication Dates: |
2014. ©2013 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Architekturen ;
volume 19 |
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| Online Access: |
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| 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. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (302 pages) : illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9783839423721 (electronic bk.) |
| Index Number: | NA9050 |
| CLC: | TU984-532 |
| Contents: |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Pr face / Introduction / My Home Is My Symptom / Metaphors in Architecture a Metaphor? / R f rence m taphorique et r f rence m tonymique / 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 / 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 ambigu t s de la m taphore en architecture / The Hidden Pavilion / Pour que la v rit soit vertigineuse, elle doit choisir d avoir infiniment tort / Authors -- LIST OF FIGURES/COPYRIGHTS. |