I-VI -- Acknowledgements -- Table of contents -- Chapter 1 What this book says about metaphor, architects, and the assessment of building design -- Chapter 2 Architectus Verborum. An introduction to architectural discourse -- Chapter 3 The cognitive and rhetorical dimensions of metaphor -- Chapter 4 Exploring metaphor in the building review genre -- Chapter 5 Metaphorical language and its underlying schemas in architectural assessment -- Chapter 6 The linguistic realization of metaphor in architectural discourse -- Chapter 7 The contribution of figurative language to re-viewing space -- Chapter 8 Concluding remarks -- Notes -- References -- Subject index -- 263-264