The word ‘type’ comes from the Greek word typos which means ‘model, matrix, impression, mould, mark, figure in relief, original form’ and from the Latin word

typuswhich means ‘figure, image, form, kind’.

Community Catalogue. 2007

TV type and implications

Animal “Types”

'A Pattern Language' by Christopher Alexander - #106 Positive Outdoor Space

Stan Allen: Diagrams of Field Conditions, 1996

“All grids are fields, but not all fields are grids. One of the potentials of the field is to redefine the relation between figure and ground. If we think of the figure not as a demarcated object read against a stable field, but as an effect emerging from the field itself – as moments of intensity, as peaks or valley within a continuous field – than it might be possible to imagine figure and field as more closely allied. (…)”

The common understanding of ‘type’ refers to an object or artifact that belongs to a class or group that brings together others with similar attributes.

The common understanding of ‘type’ refers to an object or artifact that belongs to a class or group that brings together others with similar attributes.

‘Type’ is the idea or symbolic meaning that is embodied in an element, an object or a thing. Thus ‘type’ is abstract and conceptual rather than concrete and literal.

[Quatremère de Quincy] (http://thecityasaproject.org/2011/08/type/).

Louis Kahn (from "Licht und Raum- light and space", Urs Büttiker) The chronological listing of projects traces Kahn's development process in light control and modulation.

O.M. Ungers, Roosevelt Island Competition, Table of the Building Typology for the Design, Roosevelt Island, New York, 1975

O.M. Ungers, Roosevelt Island Competition, Table of the Building Typology for the Design, Roosevelt Island, New York, 1975

Rem Koolhaas, Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan – December 1, 1997

Urban Rooms drawn by Camillo Sitte (Vienna 1889)

1. Ahmedabad; 2. Barcelona; 3. San Francisco; 4. Venezia; 5. Wien; 6. Walnut Creek

Ungers vs. Rowe, attempted to produce a theoretical argument about two divergent Cornell legacies: one, O.M. Ungers and the other, Colin Rowe as exemplary urban design positions

(http://archinect.com/features/article/58887387/archipelagos-ungers-vs-rowe)

Ungers vs. Rowe, attempted to produce a theoretical argument about two divergent Cornell legacies: one, O.M. Ungers and the other, Colin Rowe as exemplary urban design positions

(http://archinect.com/features/article/58887387/archipelagos-ungers-vs-rowe)

Noli plan, Rome (public buildings as public spaces)

Diagrams: Le Corbusier

Building Typology make the City

Eixample in Barcelona / Density beloved and bemoaned.

Eixample in Barcelona / Density beloved and bemoaned.

Eixample in Barcelona / Density beloved and bemoaned.

Eixample in Barcelona / Density beloved and bemoaned .

FARUM, DENMARK, Architecture Mixed Use Typology

FARUM, DENMARK, Architecture Mixed Use Typology

FARUM, DENMARK, Architecture Mixed Use Typology

FARUM, DENMARK, Architecture Mixed Use Typology (http://www.we-a.dk/Farum-Denmark)