Architecture as metaphor
by Karatani, Kōjin · first published 1995
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"In Architecture as Metaphor, Karatani detects a recurrent "will to architecture" that he argues is the foundation of all Western thinking, traversing architecture, philosophy, literature, linguistics, city planning, anthropology, political economics, psychoanalysis, and mathematics. In the three parts of the book, he analyzes the complex bonds between construction and deconstruction, thereby pointing to an alternative model of "secular criticism," but in the domain of philosophy rather than literary or cultural criticism." "As Karatani claims in his introduction, because the will to architect
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Architecture as Metaphor by Kojin Karatani.
on “Ask HN: Are there any books that changed your life during college or school?” ↗Architecture as Metaphor: Language, Number, Money by Kojin Karatani. Awesome interdisciplinary work that let me understand some mathematics (coming from a background in Philosophy and Literature).
on “Ask HN: Are there any books that changed your life during college or school?” ↗…self-described architects who rarely, if ever, had buildings created. They instead focused on architectural 'theory', which meant anything from phenomenological approaches to space (Gaston Bachelard), to 'Architecture as Metaphor' (see book with same title by Kojin_Karatani, a critical theorist), hell, even theory-fiction (Benjamin H. Bratton). A whole generation (or two, three?) of theorists have spent lots of time intellectualizing…
on “Why You Hate Contemporary Architecture” ↗