1st Edition
Unexpected Affinities The History of Type in Architectural Project from Laugier to Duchamp
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
Biography
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).
"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"?
