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Type? What Type? Further Reflections on the Extended Threshold
Author(s) -
Hensel Michael
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.1189
Subject(s) - typology , moment (physics) , type (biology) , aesthetics , sociology , history , epistemology , art , geology , philosophy , archaeology , physics , paleontology , classical mechanics
Michael Hensel draws a parallel between the present and a moment in the early 1990s when typology seemed poised to come to the fore. He highlights how despite a promising start this interest slipped away and was supplanted by an obsession with topography and highly complex surfaces, leading to a primacy of the individual built form over the urban.