Analogical Thinking in Architecture: Connecting Design and Theory in the Built Environment

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, used 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 we think the unknown through the fam...