Title & Author:

Metaphors in architecture and urbanism : an introduction / Andri Gerber, Brent Patterson (eds.).

Publication:

Bielefeld : Transcript, ©2013.

Description:

302 pages : illustrations, plans ; 23 cm.

Series:

Architecture ; v. 19

Notes:
International conference proceedings.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.

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. Book jacket.

ISBN:

9783837623727 (pbk.)
3837623726 (pbk.)

Subject:

City planning Philosophy Congresses.
Architecture Philosophy Congresses.
Metaphor Congresses.
Métaphore Congrès.
Architecture Philosophie Congrès.
Architecture Philosophy
City planning Philosophy
Metaphor
Städtebau
Metapher
Architekturtheorie
Metaphor in architecture.
Paris <2009>

Form/genre:

Proceedings.
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Gerber, Andri.
Patterson, Brent.
Architekturen (Bielefeld, Germany) ; Bd. 19.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 284925
Call No.: BIB 224179
Status: Available