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1 online resource (249 p.) |
| Series |
Routledge Research in Architecture Series |
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Routledge research in architecture.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Metaphors as Target and Tool in Architectural Research and Practice -- Metaphors in Architecture and Urbanism -- What Makes a Metaphor? -- Researching (With) Metaphors -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Section 1: Recovering Metaphorical Histories -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 1. Landscape as Metaphor for Post-War Office, Work and Research Architecture from the 1950s to 1970s -- Landscape in Art and Science After WWII |
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A Case for Many Landscapes: The Stuttgart-Vaihingen Campus -- Landscapes and the Ambivalent Bauhaus Tradition -- Stuttgart II: Landscape as Joint Research-Endeavour? -- Tent Roofs and Architectural Landscapes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 2. Mechanical vs Biological Metaphors and the Greek Notion of the Organic City in the Discourse of CIAM IV -- The Organic Notion in Architecture and the City -- From Moscow to Athens -- The Shift from the Functional to the Organic City -- Origins of CIAM's Organic Metaphor -- The Organic Idea Fades -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Archives |
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3. The Analogy of Means: The Ontological Function of Architectural Metaphor -- The Metaphorical Quality of Architecture -- The Ontological Function of Architectural Metaphor -- Mustard Seed Garden as Live Metaphor: An Experimental History of Dashilar -- Mustard Seed Garden: Home as a Well-Travelled ""Otherness -- Mustard Seed Garden Mediated the Production of ""Otherness -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 4. The Ghost Towns of Burma: Student Activism and the Politics of Memory under Military Rule -- 7-7-62 -- The Burmese Way to Socialism -- The Ghost Towns of Burma |
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The Presence of Absence -- The Uncanny -- The Double -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Section 2: The Material Production of Metaphors -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 5. Concrete Abstractions: Architectural Metaphors in the Design Practice of Warsaw's Socialist Realism (1949-1952) -- Context: Architectural and Political History -- MDM, Constitution Square, and Socialist Realism -- Spectres of Sovietology -- Metaphor as a Mirror -- Beyond the Mirror's Frame -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 6. Analogy versus Metaphor: Aldo van Eyck's Poetic Images In-Between Fields |
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Metaphors in Aldo van Eyck's Writings -- The Tree-Leaf Statement -- Analogy versus Metaphor -- The Child, the City and the Artist -- The Configurative Discipline: Noah's Ark by Piet Blom -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 7. Planning with Ecology: The PEP Group and Biosocial Design in Post-War Britain -- A Planned System -- Environment and Control -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- 8. Yorùbá Metaphor: From Mythoi to Contemporary Public Realm Urbanism -- Introduction: Dialectics of Metaphors in Yorùbá Architecture -- Language of Architecture in Yoruba Culture: From Myth to Urban Templates |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Metaphor as a Local Design Armature in the Yorùbá Urban Realm |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Knuth, Stephanie
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Röger, Moritz
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| ISBN |
9781000898613 |
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100089861X |
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