Tropisms

This book considers the idea of motion in architecture, in both a metaphoric and physical sense, providing examples from a variety of architects. It focuses on how using computer technologies in design has affected the thinking about movement in architecture.

Introduction

7

(6)

Tropisms and tropes

13

(18)

The question of tropisms

13

(11)

Trope as metaphor

24

(7)

Figures

31

(26)

The fold

31

(6)

The serpentine line

37

(4)

The sublime

41

(3)

Francis Ponge

44

(5)

Nathalie Sarraute

49

(8)

Image-scheme and diagram

57

(34)

Mark Johnson

57

(3)

Dynamics

60

(11)

Diagrams

71

(6)

Blobs and splines

77

(14)

Exercises

91

(16)

Crystalline and labyrinthine

92

(3)

Below and above

95

(3)

Inside and outside

98

(1)

The spiral

98

(1)

The Moebius strip

99

(8)

Epilogue

107

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