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Type, Field, Culture, Praxis
Author(s) -
Carl Peter
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.1187
Subject(s) - praxis , typology , field (mathematics) , sociology , term (time) , epistemology , environmental ethics , aesthetics , philosophy , anthropology , mathematics , pure mathematics , physics , quantum mechanics
Here, Peter Carl substitutes the term ‘type’ for the typical, and ‘typology’ for typicality. In so doing he frees up the notion of type for contemporary design, liberating it from the strictures of its performance history and precedents that have often veered towards standardisation.