“All architecture is, metaphorically, a shadow cast on a cave wall. Architecture is a version of the truth – a version of sense – proposed by the architect and realised in the physical form of buildings and the identification of places for inhabitation.”
Source: Metaphor: an exploration of the metaphorical dimensions and potential of architecture
“But that is the danger of metaphors: they can be overstretched, innocently or intentionally, as an attempt at polemic or rhetorical advantage.”
Source: Metaphor: an exploration of the metaphorical dimensions and potential of architecture
“Both metaphor and simile depend on our innate capacity for seeing correspondences. Such is an essential part of our ability to make sense of the world. Observing (perceiving) that ‘this resembles that’ (in abstract as well as visible ways) is an intellectual process central to the narratives we spin about our lives, about others, about natural processes, about any spiritual (religious) beliefs we might have. We use this intellectual process seriously in trying to explain things, and unselfconsciously in our everyday language. It is also an essential trait of humour.”
Source: Metaphor: an exploration of the metaphorical dimensions and potential of architecture
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Source: The Kind of Substance You Need For Your Success
“There are as many metaphorical subtleties in architecture as there are in language, maybe more. The metaphorical power of architecture is inescapable and has many dimensions.”
Source: Metaphor: an exploration of the metaphorical dimensions and potential of architecture
“We develop our architecture through metaphor. In the distant past we looked to those places we recognised and experienced in nature for ideas – the shelter of a cave, the shade of a tree, the original refuge of the womb, our own proud vertical stance and point of view, the communal circle we make with our friends in a forest clearing… – and sought to emulate them in our architecture.”
Source: Metaphor: an exploration of the metaphorical dimensions and potential of architecture
“The general argument is that metaphors live at the conceptual core of architecture; but those metaphors are of many and varied kinds, which change and grow as you try to pin them down.”
Source: Metaphor: an exploration of the metaphorical dimensions and potential of architecture
“…there is a particular boldness in metaphor, which is not to be found in the same degree in any of the figures of rhetoric. Without any thing like an explicit comparison, and commonly without any warning or apology, the name of one thing is obtruded upon us, for the name of another quite different, though resembling in some quality. The consequence of this is, that as there is always in this trope an apparent at least, if it cannot be called a real impropriety, and some degree of obscurity, a new metaphor is rarely to be risked.”
Source: The Philosophy of Rhetoric
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Source: Little Women
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Source: Broken: My Story of Addiction and Redemption