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Metaphors are diversly and intricately embedded in architectural practice and discourse. Precisely for this reason, this volume sets out to explore, how they can be engaged to critically interrogate architecture's social, cultural and political dimensions - past and present - and to challenge and intervene with established perspectives.
List of contents
List of ContributorsAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Metaphors as Target and Tool in Architectural Research and Practice
Sarah Borree and Stephanie KnuthSECTION 1Recovering Metaphorical HistoriesSarah Borree and Stephanie Knuth1. Landscape as Metaphor for Post-War Office, Work and Research Architecture from the 1950s to 1970s
Christian Vöhringer2. Mechanical vs Biological Metaphors and the Greek Notion of the Organic City in the Discourse of CIAM IV
Lina Dima3. The Analogy of Means: The Ontological Function of Architectural Metaphor
Peng Xue4. The Ghost Towns of Burma: Student Activism and the Politics of Memory under Military Rule
J. Hoay-Fern OoiSECTION 2The Material Production of MetaphorsSarah Borree and Stephanie Knuth5. Concrete Abstractions: Architectural Metaphors in the Design Practice of Warsaw's Socialist Realism (1949-1952)
Konrad Matyjaszek6. Analogy versus Metaphor: Aldo van Eyck's Poetic Images
In-Between Fields
Alejandro Campos Uribe and Paula Lacomba Montes7. Planning with Ecology: The PEP Group and Biosocial Design in Post-War Britain
Juliana Kei8. Yorùbá Metaphor: From Mythoi to Contemporary Public Realm Urbanism
Mok¿ládé Johnson and ¿látúnjí Adéjùm¿¿ SECTION 3
Framing Narratives through MetaphorSarah Borree and Stephanie Knuth9. Disturbing Scenes: Architecture as Metaphor in Women's Stories
Nadia Boudidah Falfoul10. The
Star System: Denise Scott Brown's Feminist Analysis of the Sociology of Architecture and Its Repercussions
Inés Toscano11. Inmundo: Architectural Metaphors from the Edge of the World
Ingrid Quintana-Guerrero12. A Clean Slate: Metaphors and the Smart City in IndiaDevika Prakash
Postscript: The Work of MetaphorsOlga TouloumiIndex
About the author
Sarah Borree is a postdoctoral fellow at the interdisciplinary LOEWE research cluster Architectures of Order at Goethe-University Frankfurt/M. Her research explores the cultures and infrastructures of the production of architecture with a particular interest in photography and publications. She holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from the University of Edinburgh and a postgraduate degree in architecture from Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.
Stephanie Knuth is a doctoral researcher at the LOEWE research cluster Architectures
of Order at the Technical University of Darmstadt. She holds an M.A. in Sociology and a postgraduate certificate in Women's and Gender Studies. Her research interests include the sociology of knowledge and technology, as well as feminist criticism of science and epistemology.
Moritz Röger is an art historian focusing on the history and theory of architecture in the 19th and 20th century. He holds an M.A. in art history from Goethe-University Frankfurt/M, co-curated an exhibition at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum (DAM) and was part of the LOEWE research cluster Architectures of Order. He currently works at the Heritage Conservation Office, Hessen.
Summary
Metaphors are diversly and intricately embedded in architectural practice and discourse. Precisely for this reason, this volume sets out to explore, how they can be engaged to critically interrogate architecture’s social, cultural and political dimensions – past and present – and to challenge and intervene with established perspectives.
