Typological Urbanism: Projective Cities - Architectural Design

This issue 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. In so doing, it provides a potent alternative, 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. This approach emphasises the potential of the translation from architecture to the city and vice versa as a fertile ground on which new ideas for typological urbanism can be discovered. Architecture and urbanism are no longer seen as separate domains, or subservient to each other, but as synthesising disciplines and processes that allows an integrating and controlling effect on both the city and its build environment. The publication engages with key international, architects and architectural thinkers, including: Toyo Ito, Bob Somol, Ben van Berkel, Rem Koolhaas, SANAA and Anthony Vidler.