Influence of Analogical Reasoning on Design

Architectural Design has emerged through form structure and function influenced unintentionally by several Analogical Reasoning types. This book reviews these types and manifests them all through architectural paradigms and history. Since Vitruvius passing though proportionality construction theory personal styles Symbolism; Sacred Architecture ecological Architecture; Biogeometry and Biomimicry Evolutionary Theories; Solar Geometry and Genetic Algorithm flexibility Complexity and technology use several types of analogical reasoning have been detected and determined. Analysis has been also encountered to pinpoint AR types through architectural history from Egyptian Chinese Indian Japanese Greek Roman Persian and Islamic Architecture. Nevertheless these types has been tracked through the 19th century development; Art Nouveau Fluid Architecture Cubism and Futurism. The 20th century and modernism from Bauhaus till minimalism Post-modernism Ultra Modernism and Visionary (Contemporary) Architecture have their share of study and analysis to list AR types. Finally elaborated designs are inter/intradomain based i.e. creativity is relative to outsources.