ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to provide an overview of the background on the relation of the human body and architectural structures as it was approached in western architecture; especially how the human body has been the inspiration for the exterior shape of buildings and how it was used as a building itself. It discusses the problem of anthropomorphism and the literature related to anthropomorphism and anthropomorphism in architecture with an approach on metaphors and architectural practice. According to the Oxford Dictionary anthropomorphism is 'the attribution of human characteristics or behaviour to a god, animal, or object'. In regards to anthropomorphism in architecture and in search of the relation of the human body, corporeality and architecture, Marco Frascari points out that, Architects can no longer do without the identification of the human body and its elements in the architectural body. Anthropomorphism in architecture manifests a monumental mirror-metaphor of a new reality.
