ÖGFA_Vortrag: Marina Lathouri

ÖGFA_Vortrag: Marina Lathouri
Writing the architectural object
notes on type, the typical and typology

A persistent architectural category, type has remained through history the most compact description of the idea as well as working instrument to analyse precedents and enable new formal configurations.

One way to grasp the historical specificity of type, its role in the formulation of a method for thinking the architectural object and producing a discourse on the city is to understand the key terms in which it is discussed. Tracing the word ‘type’ back to the 18th-century and through to its re-emergence as standardised typical element in modernism and the ‘typological studies’ in the 1960s, we will question its pertinence in the contemporary urban economies and identities. The significance of our encounter with this historical process lies not so much in outlining any specific meaning the term might have, but rather, in what has become its disciplinary and social function.
Text: Marina Lathouri

Marina Lathouri is the director of the post-graduate programme in History and Critical Thinking at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and visiting lecturer at Cambridge University.

Veranstaltung in englischer Sprache.