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Since time immemorial, bees have been associated with all manner of virtues. The beehive has served as the model for an ideal society, while honey and wax have provided the basis for countless positive metaphors of sweetness and productivity. The natural architecture created by bees in their hives can be said to approach perfection. In The Beehive Metaphor, Juan Antonio Ramírez shows how this lucid modular structure had a considerable influence on the architects and artists who founded the Modern movement. Models from both traditional and ""modern"" or ""rational"" apiculture were

Architecture --- Beehives. --- Bees in art. --- Symbolism in architecture. --- History --- Themes, motives. --- Le Corbusier, --- Gaudí, Antoni, --- Architectural symbolism --- Signs and symbols in architecture --- Bee hives --- Bee houses --- Hives, Bee --- Honeybee --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Housing --- Design and construction --- Gaodi, --- Gaudí i Cornet, Antoni, --- Cornet, Antonio Gaudí y, --- Gaudí y Cornet, Antonio, --- Gaudi, Antonio, --- Gaudí Cornet, Antonio, --- גאודי, אנטוני --- Gaudi, Antonin, --- Jeanneret-Gris, Charles Edouard, --- Gris, Charles Edouard Jeanneret-, --- Jeanneret, Charles Edouard, --- Corbusier, Edouard le, --- Le Corbusier, Eduard, --- Le Corbusier-Saugnier, --- Corbusier, --- Kebiyi, --- Korubyujie, --- Le Korbi︠u︡zʹe, --- Le Kebuxiye, --- Lu Kūrbūziyah, --- Ru Korubyujie, --- Rangnalei, Chaersi Aidehua, --- 勒・柯布西耶, --- 让纳雷, 查尔斯・爱德华, --- Bee culture --- Apiaries --- Art --- Building --- Equipment and supplies --- Ле Корбюзьє, --- Architecture, Primitive --- Gaudi, Antoni, --- Biology --- Aesthetics of art --- Literature --- ecology --- architectural theory --- metaphor --- Nature --- Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig --- Beuys, Joseph --- Wright, Frank Lloyd --- Corbusier, le --- Gaudí, Antoní