Peter Trummer is a professor for urban design and urban planning at the University of Innsbruck and currently the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture. He is a visiting faculty member for the architectural design and architectural theory program at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles.

• FOREWORD by Graham Harman 7ABSTRACT 13INTRODUCTION 15CHAPTER 1:THE CITY AS THE ORIGIN OF ARCHITECTURE 351.1. The City and Mechanology 351.2. A Fourfold Diagram of the Architecture of the City 411.2.1. Matter: Deeper than Form and Use 431.2.2. Type: Deeper than Form and Zero-Use 531.2.3. Function: Deeper than Use and Zero-Form 631.2.4. Object: Deeper than Zero-Form and Zero-Use 751.3. Thesis 85CHAPTER 2:THE CITY AS A TECHNICAL BEING 1032.1. The Mousgoum Village 1032.2. The Kind of Technical Object the City Is 1172.2.1. The City as a Megamachine 1232.2.2. The City as a Proto-subjective Machine 1272.2.3. The City as a Hyperobject 1332.2.4. The City as a Technical Being 139CHAPTER 3:THE FIVE INDIVIDUATED CITIES 1553.1. The City as an Enclosure 1633.2. The City as a Grid 1733.3. The City as a Line 1853.4. The City as an Archipelago 2013.5. The City as a Solid 225CHAPTER 4:THE ARCHITECTURE TUNED BY THE CITY 2674.1. The City on a Single Roof 2774.2. The Architectural Ensembles of the City:From Alberti to the Re-origination of Simondon 2854.3. Concretization One:In Which a Building Converges with a Street 3134.4. Concretization Two:In Which a Building Converges with a Public Square 3214.5. Concretization Three:In Which a Building Converges with a Ground 329CONCLUSION: CITOLOGY; OR, HOW THE CITY TUNESARCHITECTURE 347BIBLIOGRAPHY 355ILLUSTRATION CREDITS 376

Peter Trummer is a professor for urban design and urban planning at the University of Innsbruck and currently the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture. He is a visiting faculty member for the architectural design and architectural theory program at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles.

• FOREWORD by Graham Harman 7ABSTRACT 13INTRODUCTION 15CHAPTER 1:THE CITY AS THE ORIGIN OF ARCHITECTURE 351.1. The City and Mechanology 351.2. A Fourfold Diagram of the Architecture of the City 411.2.1. Matter: Deeper than Form and Use 431.2.2. Type: Deeper than Form and Zero-Use 531.2.3. Function: Deeper than Use and Zero-Form 631.2.4. Object: Deeper than Zero-Form and Zero-Use 751.3. Thesis 85CHAPTER 2:THE CITY AS A TECHNICAL BEING 1032.1. The Mousgoum Village 1032.2. The Kind of Technical Object the City Is 1172.2.1. The City as a Megamachine 1232.2.2. The City as a Proto-subjective Machine 1272.2.3. The City as a Hyperobject 1332.2.4. The City as a Technical Being 139CHAPTER 3:THE FIVE INDIVIDUATED CITIES 1553.1. The City as an Enclosure 1633.2. The City as a Grid 1733.3. The City as a Line 1853.4. The City as an Archipelago 2013.5. The City as a Solid 225CHAPTER 4:THE ARCHITECTURE TUNED BY THE CITY 2674.1. The City on a Single Roof 2774.2. The Architectural Ensembles of the City:From Alberti to the Re-origination of Simondon 2854.3. Concretization One:In Which a Building Converges with a Street 3134.4. Concretization Two:In Which a Building Converges with a Public Square 3214.5. Concretization Three:In Which a Building Converges with a Ground 329CONCLUSION: CITOLOGY; OR, HOW THE CITY TUNESARCHITECTURE 347BIBLIOGRAPHY 355ILLUSTRATION CREDITS 376

Peter Trummer is a professor for urban design and urban planning at the University of Innsbruck and currently the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture. He is a visiting faculty member for the architectural design and architectural theory program at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles.

• FOREWORD by Graham Harman 7ABSTRACT 13INTRODUCTION 15CHAPTER 1:THE CITY AS THE ORIGIN OF ARCHITECTURE 351.1. The City and Mechanology 351.2. A Fourfold Diagram of the Architecture of the City 411.2.1. Matter: Deeper than Form and Use 431.2.2. Type: Deeper than Form and Zero-Use 531.2.3. Function: Deeper than Use and Zero-Form 631.2.4. Object: Deeper than Zero-Form and Zero-Use 751.3. Thesis 85CHAPTER 2:THE CITY AS A TECHNICAL BEING 1032.1. The Mousgoum Village 1032.2. The Kind of Technical Object the City Is 1172.2.1. The City as a Megamachine 1232.2.2. The City as a Proto-subjective Machine 1272.2.3. The City as a Hyperobject 1332.2.4. The City as a Technical Being 139CHAPTER 3:THE FIVE INDIVIDUATED CITIES 1553.1. The City as an Enclosure 1633.2. The City as a Grid 1733.3. The City as a Line 1853.4. The City as an Archipelago 2013.5. The City as a Solid 225CHAPTER 4:THE ARCHITECTURE TUNED BY THE CITY 2674.1. The City on a Single Roof 2774.2. The Architectural Ensembles of the City:From Alberti to the Re-origination of Simondon 2854.3. Concretization One:In Which a Building Converges with a Street 3134.4. Concretization Two:In Which a Building Converges with a Public Square 3214.5. Concretization Three:In Which a Building Converges with a Ground 329CONCLUSION: CITOLOGY; OR, HOW THE CITY TUNESARCHITECTURE 347BIBLIOGRAPHY 355ILLUSTRATION CREDITS 376