The City as a Technical Being
Oro Editions (Verlag)
978-1-957183-55-8 (ISBN)
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.
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 7
ABSTRACT 13
INTRODUCTION 15
CHAPTER 1:
THE CITY AS THE ORIGIN OF ARCHITECTURE 35
1.1. The City and Mechanology 35
1.2. A Fourfold Diagram of the Architecture of the City 41
1.2.1. Matter: Deeper than Form and Use 43
1.2.2. Type: Deeper than Form and Zero-Use 53
1.2.3. Function: Deeper than Use and Zero-Form 63
1.2.4. Object: Deeper than Zero-Form and Zero-Use 75
1.3. Thesis 85
CHAPTER 2:
THE CITY AS A TECHNICAL BEING 103
2.1. The Mousgoum Village 103
2.2. The Kind of Technical Object the City Is 117
2.2.1. The City as a Megamachine 123
2.2.2. The City as a Proto-subjective Machine 127
2.2.3. The City as a Hyperobject 133
2.2.4. The City as a Technical Being 139
CHAPTER 3:
THE FIVE INDIVIDUATED CITIES 155
3.1. The City as an Enclosure 163
3.2. The City as a Grid 173
3.3. The City as a Line 185
3.4. The City as an Archipelago 201
3.5. The City as a Solid 225
CHAPTER 4:
THE ARCHITECTURE TUNED BY THE CITY 267
4.1. The City on a Single Roof 277
4.2. The Architectural Ensembles of the City:
From Alberti to the Re-origination of Simondon 285
4.3. Concretization One:
In Which a Building Converges with a Street 313
4.4. Concretization Two:
In Which a Building Converges with a Public Square 321
4.5. Concretization Three:
In Which a Building Converges with a Ground 329
CONCLUSION: CITOLOGY; OR, HOW THE CITY TUNES
ARCHITECTURE 347
BIBLIOGRAPHY 355
ILLUSTRATION CREDITS 376
| Erscheinungsdatum | 15.11.2023 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 150 Illustrations, color |
| Verlagsort | San Rafael |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 228 mm |
| Gewicht | 970 g |
| Themenwelt | Technik ► Architektur |
| ISBN-10 | 1-957183-55-1 / 1957183551 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-957183-55-8 / 9781957183558 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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