Type? What Type? Further Reflections on the Extended Threshold

摘要

This issue of D offers an opportunity to Revisit a critical yet overlooked juncture in the early 1990s, a time of economic downturn during which swift and significant changes in architectural theory and experimentation occurred. The consequences of these changes continue to greatly affect practice and the built environment today and relate to questions of discrete form and typology in architecture. The aim of this article is to re-examine this juncture and its ongoing repercussiops, as well as bringing to attention an immense, yet missed, opportunity for a fundamental revision of the product of architectural and urban design practice.