Unexpected Affinities

Pablo Meninato holds a PhD from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and a Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. He has practiced architecture and urban design in Buenos Aires, Monterrey, and Philadelphia, where he is principal of PMArch. Meninato has lectured at the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, Philadelphia University, Universidad de Monterrey, and the Universidad de Palermo in Buenos Aires. He has written architectural criticism and essays for >assemble d3, Summa+, and Arqtexto, and the forthcoming "Spatial Seductions—The Everyday Interiorities of Marcel Duchamp, Eduard Kienholz, and Pepon Osorio," in The Interior Architecture Theory Reader, Taylor & Francis (March 2018).

"For Meninato, types are tools for “generating the architectural project.” For the rest of us, the book generates a richer appreciation of what surrounds and surprises us every day."AJ Sabatini, thebroadstreetreview.com, What's your "type"?

• TABLE OF CONTENTSLIST OF FIGURESACKNOWLEDGEMENTSPREFACEINTRODUCTION PART 1: NINETEENTH CENTURY—ORIGINS, IMITATION, TYPEChapter 1. Towards an Inaugural Definition of TypeChapter 2. Semper’s Knot PART 2: TWENTIETH CENTURY—SHIFTING CONSIDERATIONS Chapter 3. Modern Architecture’s Uncertain Consideration of TypeChapter 4. Typology Reconsidered PART 3: TYPE AND PROJECT—ALTERATION TACTICSChapter 5. Typological Alterations Chapter 6. Affinities: Typological Displacement and Readymade AFTERWORDBIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX