Context is not only the physical reality that sorrounds us but also the atmosphere which is able to evoke emotions giving us an aesthetic pleasure. Metaphor is a tool that make this atmosphere cognizable in a rational way. An Architecture can reach a metaphoric significance as it allows a multiplicity of iconic information to fix clearly in the mind of an individual through few invariant elements, asso-ciating the artefact to an idea of architecture which is already known by the individual itself. We could recognize three metaphoric type: -metaphor, through operation of substitution modifies the “distance” between a shape and what it represents, providing architecture with a chance to be “other” from technical-functional needs. -architecture represents an iconological theme which is estranged from the functional program and introduces contaminations with other iconic realities. The context is an iconological theme. -architecture as a metaphor of one's own building act. -architecture as a metaphor of environmental, physical or temporal conditions.
The metaphor: images and shape in architecture
LUCCHINI, MARCO
2010-01-01
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Context is not only the physical reality that sorrounds us but also the atmosphere which is able to evoke emotions giving us an aesthetic pleasure. Metaphor is a tool that make this atmosphere cognizable in a rational way. An Architecture can reach a metaphoric significance as it allows a multiplicity of iconic information to fix clearly in the mind of an individual through few invariant elements, asso-ciating the artefact to an idea of architecture which is already known by the individual itself. We could recognize three metaphoric type: -metaphor, through operation of substitution modifies the “distance” between a shape and what it represents, providing architecture with a chance to be “other” from technical-functional needs. -architecture represents an iconological theme which is estranged from the functional program and introduces contaminations with other iconic realities. The context is an iconological theme. -architecture as a metaphor of one's own building act. -architecture as a metaphor of environmental, physical or temporal conditions.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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