Typological Instruments: Connecting Architecture and Urbanism

摘要

The projects here explore the instrumental potential of typology in architecture and urbanism, and in particular the area where the two disciplines intersect and merge. Whether described as classification, indexing, categorisation or taxonomy, the typological effort essentially constitutes grouping similar things together in a way that is meant to be helpful. The helpfulness of types can be expressed in different ways by different architects. A prized benefit is the legacy of rationality. The systemic reasoning behind the emergence of a type replicates a scientific approach; it conveys that an underlying strict logic is controlling a discipline that might iat times appear incoherent and out of control. Types are for this reason also eminently communicable.