Architecture as Metaphor: Language, Number, Money

by Kōjin Karatani

In Architecture as Metaphor, Kojin 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.

Kojin Karatani, Japan's leading literary critic, is perhaps best known for his imaginative readings of Shakespeare, Soseki, Marx, Wittgenstein, and most...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262611139
• ISBN13: 9780262611138
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher