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Shape and the City
Author(s) -
Somol RE
Publication year - 2012
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.1470
Subject(s) - megalopolis , architecture , politics , trajectory , sociology , computer science , political science , history , law , geography , economic geography , archaeology , physics , astronomy
At a time when architecture's historical relationship to the city ‐founded on various formal and, more recently, informal homologies – has been rendered inoperative, how might a renewed architecture constructively inform the megalopolis? RE Somol flings all the formal and informal protocols offered to the city by architecture out of the pram and calls for a politics of shape, a potential trajectory tested with two projects by Zago Architecture.