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An archetype is an original model or pattern on which all things of the same kind are copied or based.
The Pantheon, Rome, Italy
Metaphor is an object, activity, or idea used in place of another to suggest a likeness between them.
Urban Jungle // Giraffe Childcare Centre, Paris
Reproductive imagination is the power of reproducing images stored in the memory under the suggestion of associated images.
"Micro heart thinking as brain" // Skount Blog
Repetition is the act or process of repeating formal elements or motifs in a design.
repetition in architecture
Radial symmetry is the symmetry resulting from the arrangement of similar, radiating parts about a centre point or central axis.
Ebenezer Howard // Garden City “Rurisville”, 1898
Collage is an artistic composition of often diverse elements in unlikely or unexpected juxtaposition.
"Black Collage" by Robert Nickle
Monotony is the state or quality of lacking variety.
Suburbia // Bon Aire, GA, Canada
A pattern is an artistic or decorative design, especially one having a characteristic arrangement and considered as a unit, of which an idea can be given by a fragment.
Pattern of traditional Portuguese pavement // Lisbon
A symbol is something that stands for or represent something else by association, resemblance, or convention, deriving its meaning chiefly from the structure in which it appears.
Alchemy symbols with meanings
Abstract relates to shapes and forms having an intellectual and affective content dependent solely on their intrinsic lines, colours, and relationship to one another.
Kasimir Malevich
Massing is a unified composition of two-dimensional shapes or three-dimensional volumes, especially one that has or gives the impression of weight, density, and bulk.
Christopher Drummond // massing diagram
Archilibs is a research studio founded by BG-Martin exploring the language, logic, and plasticity behind architectural form.
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