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.
"This publication is the result of a three-day conference that took place in November 2009 at the Ecole spéciale d'architecture and at the Centre de l'histoire de l'art allemand in Paris on the subject of 'Metaphors in/on Architecture and Urbanism'"--Introduction.
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.
Texts in English or French.

ISBN:

9783837623727 (pbk.)
3837623726 (pbk.)

Subject:

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

Form/genre:

Proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.

Added entries:

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

Holdings:

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