Main entry:

Unwin, Simon, 1952- author.

Title & Author:

Metaphor : an exploration of the metaphorical dimensions and potential of architecture / [Simon Unwin].

Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2019.
©2019

Description:

184 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Series:

The analysing architecture notebook series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Simile, cliché, metaphor? -- Body metaphors -- Gender metaphors -- Tree metaphors -- Doorway metaphors -- Metaphors of personality -- Temple metaphors -- Cottage metaphors -- Architecture related word metaphors -- The genetic metaphor -- Metaphors of sense and nonsense -- Mind metaphors -- Landscape metaphors -- Machine metaphors -- The music metaphor -- Narrative metaphors.

Summary:

Each of these 'Analysing Architecture Notebooks' is devoted to a particular theme in understanding the rich and varied workings of architecture. They can be thought of as addenda to the foundation volume Analysing Architecture, which first appeared in 1997 and has subsequently been enlarged in three further editions. Examining these extra themes as a series of Notebooks, rather than as additional chapters in future editions, allows greater space for more detailed exploration of a wider variety of examples, whilst avoiding the risk of the original book becoming unwieldy. Metaphor is the most powerful component of the poetry of architecture. It has been a significant factor in architecture since the earliest periods of human history, when people were finding ways to give order and meaning to the world in which we live. It is arguable that architecture began with the realisation of metaphor in physical form, and that subsequent movements - from Greek to Gothic, Renaissance to Modern, Victorian to Vernacular... - have all been driven by the emergence or rediscovery of different metaphors by which architecture might be generated.

ISBN:

9781138045439 hardcover
1138045438 hardcover
9781138045484 paperback
1138045489 paperback
electronic book
9781315171906
electronic publication
9781351696258
9781351696265
Mobipocket electronic book
9781351696241

Subject:

Architecture.
architecture (discipline)
Metaphor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 305133
Call No.: BIB 250871
Status: Available