Metaphorical Practices in Architecture : Metaphors as Method and Subject in the Production of Architecture (Routledge Research in Architecture)

Borree, Sarah (EDT)/ Knuth, Stephanie (EDT)/ Röger, Moritz (EDT)

Routledge（2023/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 238 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781032289342
• DDC分類 720.1

Full Description

Metaphors are diversly and intricately embedded in architectural practice and discourse. Precisely for this reason, this volume argues and sets out to explore, how they can be engaged to critically interrogate architecture's social, cultural and political dimensions - past and present - and to productively challenge and intervene with established perspectives, debates and practices.

Mapping out not just potentials but also addressing the challenges, limitations and dangers inherent in using metaphors in architectural research and practice, the volume prominently illustrates the ambiguity and contradictoriness inherent in both metaphors and the process of engaging and exploiting them. Covering a broad range of historical and geographical cases and concerns, the contributions illustrate effectively that metaphors can expand or narrow our engagement with architecture, and consolidate or legitimise but also destabilise and challenge established social, cultural, disciplinary and political structures, concepts and categories.

With its aim to explore metaphors as both subject and method to critically challenge and expand established practices, perspectives and standards in architectural research and practice, the volume will be of interest for scholars working across the architectural humanities, including architectural history, theory, culture, design and urbanism, as well as for researchers concerned with architecture and the city from fields such as cultural, visual and area studies as well as art history.

Contents

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Metaphors as Target and Tool in Architectural Research and Practice

Sarah Borree and Stephanie Knuth

SECTION 1

Recovering Metaphorical Histories

Sarah Borree and Stephanie Knuth

1. Landscape as Metaphor for Post-War Office, Work and Research Architecture from the 1950s to 1970s

Christian Vöhringer

2. Mechanical vs Biological Metaphors and the Greek Notion of the Organic City in the Discourse of CIAM IV

Lina Dima

3. The Analogy of Means: The Ontological Function of Architectural Metaphor

Peng Xue

4. The Ghost Towns of Burma: Student Activism and the Politics of Memory under Military Rule

J. Hoay-Fern Ooi

SECTION 2

The Material Production of Metaphors

Sarah Borree and Stephanie Knuth

5. Concrete Abstractions: Architectural Metaphors in the Design Practice of Warsaw's Socialist Realism (1949-1952)

Konrad Matyjaszek

6. Analogy versus Metaphor: Aldo van Eyck's Poetic Images In-Between Fields

Alejandro Campos Uribe and Paula Lacomba Montes

7. Planning with Ecology: The PEP Group and Biosocial Design in Post-War Britain

Juliana Kei

8. Yorùbá Metaphor: From Mythoi to Contemporary Public Realm Urbanism

Mokọládé Johnson and Ọlátúnjí Adéjùmọ̀

SECTION 3

Framing Narratives through Metaphor

Sarah Borree and Stephanie Knuth

9. Disturbing Scenes: Architecture as Metaphor in Women's Stories

Nadia Boudidah Falfoul

10. The Star System: Denise Scott Brown's Feminist Analysis of the Sociology of Architecture and Its Repercussions

Inés Toscano

11. Inmundo: Architectural Metaphors from the Edge of the World

Ingrid Quintana-Guerrero

12. A Clean Slate: Metaphors and the Smart City in India

Devika Prakash

Postscript: The Work of Metaphors

Olga Touloumi

Index