Metaphorical Practices in Architecture

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.

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