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Zusatztext "For Meninato! types are tools for "generating the architectural project." For the rest of us! the book generates a richer appreciation of what surrounds and surprises us every day."AJ Sabatini! thebroadstreetreview.com! What's your "type"? Informationen zum Autor Pablo Meninato holds a PhD from the Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul in Porto Alegre, Brazil, and a Master of Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. He has practiced architecture and urban design in Buenos Aires, Monterrey, and Philadelphia, where he is principal of PMArch. Meninato has lectured at the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, Philadelphia University, Universidad de Monterrey, and the Universidad de Palermo in Buenos Aires. He has written architectural criticism and essays for >assemble d3 , Summa+ , and Arqtexto , and the forthcoming "Spatial Seductions—The Everyday Interiorities of Marcel Duchamp, Eduard Kienholz, and Pepon Osorio," in The Interior Architecture Theory Reader , Taylor & Francis (March 2018). Zusammenfassung Unexpected Affinities proposes a reassessment of architectural type throughout history and its impact on the development of architectural theory and practice, from Laugier's 1753 'Essay on Architecture' through 19th- and 20th- century architectural movements. Inhaltsverzeichnis TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS PREFACE INTRODUCTION PART 1: NINETEENTH CENTURY—ORIGINS, IMITATION, TYPE Chapter 1. Towards an Inaugural Definition of Type Chapter 2. Semper’s Knot PART 2: TWENTIETH CENTURY—SHIFTING CONSIDERATIONS Chapter 3. Modern Architecture’s Uncertain Consideration of Type Chapter 4. Typology Reconsidered PART 3: TYPE AND PROJECT—ALTERATION TACTICS Chapter 5. Typological Alterations Chapter 6. Affinities: Typological Displacement and Readymade AFTERWORD BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX ...
