The first two aim at the creation of the form, in contrast to the last who aims at the connectivity in totality. Despite what someone’s take on what typology is, the product shall always be put in the end in a ‘type’ even if they tried not to follow a typology, this is because of our need to understand it, and most generally we understand by comparing.Īnthony Vidler’s take on typology on his essay ‘The third typology’ focuses on each of the three’s perspective keywords nature, machinery, the city. Furthermore, the change has not been because the meaning was wrong but rather because a different conception was taken in understanding architecture and ultimately describing typology. This, I believe is not the result of a lack of explanation, but rather the fruition of the many changes of definition and relations it has gone through. The irony of the Rationalists, to me, comes in their own positivism.“It is insufficient for architecture today to directly implement an existing building typology it instead requires architects to carefully examine the whole area with new interventions and programmatic typologies” – Zaha Hadid.įrom the appearance of the word typology to its many definition alterations, the word is still ambiguous to many. Above anything else, “The Third Typology” brings to mind Hays’s editorial alibi in the introduction to this anthology, when he explains that his goal was to illustrate the recurrence, permutation, and recombination of different themes over the course of the surveyed period.
Under these three typologies, Vidler explains, is the City acting as consistent theoretical catalyst, historically verifying the Rationalists’ dependency on the city’s form for their own “organic” typology, which affords them their ironic, layered architecture-as-social-commentary works. Covertly, it is a clever but effective attempt at situating the ’ obsession with the City as locus of architectural meaning within an historical context. Though the titular topic is different typologies of architecture, the essay is equally about the three architectural epistemes that delineate the three periods and the typological systems built on them.At least, that is its overt purpose.
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