How can architecture today be simultaneously relevant to its urban context and at the very forefront of design? For a decade or so, iconic architecture hasbeen fuelled by the market economy and consumers' insatiable appetite for thenovel and the different. The relentless speed and scale of urbanisation, withits ruptured, decentralised and fast-changing context, though, demands a rethink of the role of the designer and the function of architecture. This title of 2 confronts and questions the profession's and academia's current inability to confidently and comprehensively describe, conceptualise, theorise and ultimately project new ideas for architecture in relation to the city. In so doing,it provides a potent alternative for projective cities: Typological Urbanism.This pursues and develops the strategies of typological reasoning in order tore-engage architecture with the city in both a critical and speculative manner. Architecture and urbanism are no longer seen as separate domains, or subservient to each other, but as synthesising disciplines and processes that allow an integrating and controlling effect on both the city and its built environment.
- ISBN: 978-0-470-74720-9
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 136
- Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés