Calatrava as a construction engineer before an architect admires the property of stability in buildings, and thus followed this to follow natural creatures' forms, persisting stability even while moving. When Le Corbusier claimed "A machine for living", a metaphor changed architects' directions and designs up till now. With a new metaphor or analogy a new style or generation of architecture emerges. Owen Jones who followed him found his facts and reasonability in following nature especially plants. When Eugene Viollet-le-duc (1863) who developed new architecture not based on following classical theories but instead based on facts and reasonable conclusions. Nevertheless, it inspired us not to be bound to these classical theories and think beyond these systemized rules. (1967) Analogy or analogical reasoning influenced our ancient architecture which granted us all the classical theories architects have followed. "Whenever we draw a diagram, say the ground-plan of a house, or a street-plan to show the location of its site, of a map, or an isographic chart, or a curve representing the fluctuations of the stock-market, we are drawing a "logical picture" of something… its relation to the object …of analogy" Langer S. Once pulling a pen and draw a circle analogy is applied, emphasizing a metaphor.
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