City as a Technical Being

On the Mode of Existence of Architecture

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

The city is the largest human artefact. It is made by us, yet simultaneously it makes us, as well as all other nonhuman entities. The particular discourse to which this book on the city contributes is the discipline of architecture. It explores a simple question: How does the city effect the mode of existence of its buildings?The tradition within architectural history that identifies the city as the origin of our buildings poses a challenge to us, as architects, to theorise about the city’s form and use in order to rationalise our own actions. In opposition to other disciplinary approaches to the city and its architecture, the book argues not for type (Rossi, Ungers) as the deepest aspect of the architecture of the city. Neither will it be the function (Venturi & Scott Brown, Koolhaas) of the city to explain its material organisation, nor is matter considered (Jacobs, Banham) to be deeper than the real city. Instead, this book argues that the mode of existence of architecture is inherent to the city itself, which originates its architecture as part of its being as a technical object.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-02-20
Mått:152 x 228 x 35 mm
Vikt:970 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:307
Förlag:Oro Editions
ISBN:9781957183558

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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.

Innehållsförteckning

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