Analogical Thinking in Architecture
Subtitle: Connecting Design and Theory in the Built Environment
By: Jean-Pierre Chupin
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
Published: 2023
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781350343658
Subjects: Architecture; Philosophy; Creative thinking; Architectural structure & design; Theory of architecture
Description: This book provides an in-depth exploration of the rich and persistent use of analogical thinking in the built environment.  Since the turn of the 21st century, "design thinking" has permeated many fields outside of the design disciplines.  It is expected to succeed whenever disciplinary boundaries need to be transcended in order to think "outside the box." This book argues that these qualities have long been supported by "analogical thinking"-an agile way of reasoning in which think the unknown through the familiar.  The book is organized into four case studies: the first reviews analogical models that have been at the heart of design thinking representations from the 1960s to the present day; the second investigates the staying power of biological analogies; the third explores the paradoxical imaginary of "analogous cities" as a means of integrating contemporary architecture with heritage contexts; while the fourth unpacks the critical and theoretical potential of linguistic metaphors and visual comparisons in architectural discourse.  Comparing views on the role of analogies and metaphors by prominent voices in architecture and related disciplines from the 17th century to the present, the book shows how the "analogical world of the project" is revealed as a wide-open field of creative and cognitive interactions. These visual and textual operations are explained through 36 analogical plates which can be read as an inter-text demonstrating how analogy has the power to reconcile design and theories.
Table of contents: title: List of Analogical Plates List of Figures Acknowledgements  Introduction: Analogy Beyond Resemblance A Spectrum of Definitions A Canonical Example A Paucity of Theories for a Plethora of Facts Design Process, Repertories, Cities and Theories  1 Reflecting on Design Thinking The Design Process as an Object of Research Cybernetic and Methodological Analogues Analogy as Creative Technique Toward a Cognitive Approach to Design The Rise of Design Thinking  2 The Cyclical Case of Biological Analogies The Intertwined Fates of Architecture and Biology Peter Collins and the Biological Analogy Philip Steadman and the Evolutionary Design of Artefacts  George Hersey and the Biological Roots of Architecture Analogical Reasoning and the Burden of Proof Life Cycles of Biological Analogies  3 In the Labyrinth of Analogous Cities The Città Analoga as a Visual Enigma The Critical Misfortune of a Hypothesis  Climbing the Analogical Mountain Back to Square One with Aldo Rossi  4 From Linguistic Metaphors to Critical Analogies   Classical Regimes of Resemblance Post-modern Metaphors of the Column Critiques of Linguistic Analogy Colin Rowe's Method of Analogical Pairing  Conclusion: Connecting Design and Theory in the Built Environment  The Analogical World of the Project Analogy as Inclusive Device Snakes and Ladders Digital Analogues and Artificial Imagination Cognitive Leaps are the Order of Things  Bibliography Index