{"product_id":"9783865609465","title":"Oswald Mathias Ungers: Morphologie: City Metaphors","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1982, German architect Oswald Mathias Ungers' \u003ci\u003eCity Metaphors\u003c\/i\u003e juxtaposes more than 100 various city maps throughout history with images of flora and fauna and other images from science and nature. Ungers assigns each a title—a single descriptive word printed in both English and German. In Ungers' vision, the divisions of Venice are transformed into a handshake and the 1809 plan of St Gallen becomes a womb. Ungers writes in his foreword: “Without a comprehensive vision reality will appear as a mass of unrelated phenomenon and meaningless facts, in other words, totally chaotic. In such a world it would be like living in a vacuum; everything would be of equal importance; nothing could attract our attention; and there would be no possibility to utilize the mind.” A classic of creative cartography and visual thinking, \u003ci\u003eCity Metaphors\u003c\/i\u003e is also an experiment in conscious vision-building.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Walther König, Köln","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47057291772144,"sku":"9783865609465","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9783865609465_p0.jpg?v=1763699489","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9783865609465","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}