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Typological Instruments: Connecting Architecture and Urbanism
Author(s) -
Bos Caroline,
van BerkelUNStudio Ben
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.1190
Subject(s) - urbanism , architecture , china , process (computing) , order (exchange) , architectural engineering , sociology , history , geography , engineering , computer science , archaeology , business , finance , operating system
For Caroline Bos and Ben van Berkel of UNStudio , type in architecture ‘exists to direct, to connect or to be instrumental’ rather than to prescribe. They describe how in their projects for Arnhem Central in the Netherlands and the Raffles City development in Hangzhou, China, they have deftly developed and applied typologies in order to gain control of the design process in complex urban contexts.