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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.
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