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The City as a Project: Types, Typical Objects and Typologies
Author(s) -
Lathouri Marina
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.1185
Subject(s) - typology , historiography , tracing , type (biology) , history , sociology , computer science , archaeology , programming language , geology , paleontology
Marina Lathouri provides a critical overview of the historiography of typology, tracing the word ‘type’ back to its 18th‐century origins and through to its re‐emergence as a standardised objet‐type in the Modernist era. She closes by questioning the pertinence of type and typology today.