Typological Urbanism: Projective Cities (Architectural Design January February 2011, Vol. 81, No. 1)

How can architecture today be simultaneously relevant to its urban context and at the very forefront of design? For a decade or so, iconic architecture has been fuelled by the market economy and consumers' insatiable appetite for the novel and the different. The relentless speed and scale of urbanisation, with its ruptured, decentralised and fast-changing context, though, demands a rethink of the role of the designer and the function of architecture. This title of 2 confronts and questions the profession's and academia's current inability to confidently and comprehensively describe, conceptualise, theorise and ultimately project new ideas for architecture in relation to the city. In so doing, it provides a potent alternative for projective cities: Typological Urbanism. This pursues and develops the strategies of typological reasoning in order to re-engage architecture with the city in both a critical and speculative manner. Architecture and urbanism are no longer seen as separate domains, or subservient to each other, but as synthesising disciplines and processes that allow an integrating and controlling effect on both the city and its built environment. COVER......Page 1 FRONT MATTER......Page 2 CONTENTS......Page 5 EDITORIAL......Page 8 ABOUT THE GUEST-EDITORS......Page 10 SPOTLIGHT: VISUAL HIGHLIGHTS OF THE ISSUE......Page 11 TYPOLOGICAL URBANISM AND THE IDEA OF THE CITY......Page 17 THE CITY AS A PROJECT: TYPES, TYPICAL OBJECTS AND TYPOLOGIES......Page 27 CITY AS POLITICAL FORM: FOUR ARCHETYPES OF URBAN TRANSFORMATION......Page 35 TYPE, FIELD, CULTURE, PRAXIS......Page 41 BRASILIA’S PROTOTYPICAL DESIGN......Page 49 TYPE? WHAT TYPE?FURTHER REFLECTIONS ON THE EXTENDED THRESHOLD......Page 59 TYPOLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS......Page 69 PENANG TROPICAL CITY PENANG MALAYSIA......Page 82 SINGAPORE BUONA VISTA MASTER PLAN COMPETITION, SINGAPORE......Page 93 21ST CENTURY MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, KANAZAWA, ISHIKAWA PREFECTURE, JAPAN......Page 97 THE METROPOLIS AS INTEGRAL SUBSTANCE......Page 105 A SIMPLE HEART: ARCHITECTURE ON THE RUINS OF THE POST-FORDIST CITY......Page 113 XI’AN HORTICULTURAL MASTERPLAN, XI’AN, CHINA......Page 123 COUNTERPOINT: TRANSCENDING TYPE: DESIGNING FOR URBAN COMPLEXITY......Page 131 CONTRIBUTORS......Page 138 ABOUT ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN......Page 139 BACK COVER......Page 140 ¿Cómo puede la arquitectura de hoy conjugar de forma simultánea edificios pertinentes a su contexto urbano y en la vanguardia del diseño? Durante una década o así, la arquitectura icónica ha sido impulsado por la economía de mercado y el apetito de los consumidores insaciables por la novedad y lo diferente. La velocidad implacable y la escala de la urbanización, la ruptura con su contexto, descentralizado y en rápido cambio, sin embargo, exige un replanteamiento del papel del diseñador y la función de la arquitectura. Este persigue y desarrolla las estrategias de razonamiento tipológico con el fin de volver a comprometer a la arquitectura con la ciudad, tanto en forma crítica y especulativa. Arquitectura y urbanismo ya no son vistos como dominios separados, o subordinados el uno al otro, sino como síntesis de disciplinas y procesos que permitan un efecto integrador y el control de la ciudad y su entorno construido This volume confronts and questions the profession's and academia's current inability to confidently and comprehensively describe, conceptualise, theorise and ultimately project any new ideas for architecture in relationship to the city