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Renewable Types and the Urban Plan

  1. Christopher Lee,
  2. Sam Jacoby

Article first published online: 6 MAR 2008

DOI: 10.1002/ad.654

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Architectural Design

Architectural Design

Special Issue: Versatility and Vicissitude

Volume 78, Issue 2, pages 128–131, March/April 2008

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Lee, C. and Jacoby, S. (2008), Renewable Types and the Urban Plan. Archit Design, 78: 128–131. doi: 10.1002/ad.654

Publication History

  1. Issue published online: 6 MAR 2008
  2. Article first published online: 6 MAR 2008

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Keywords:

  • Diploma Unit 16;
  • ‘punctuators’;
  • dispersers;
  • issues of control and difference;
  • Yi Cheng Pan's Resisting the Generic Empire;
  • Marina Bay;
  • multiple ‘clustered’ volumes;
  • ‘London 2013’;
  • Kelvin Chu's Perforated Hill;
  • 80,000 spectators;
  • post-Olympic neighbourhood;
  • Max von Werz, Open Source Fabric, Zorrozaurre, Bilbao, Spain, 2006–07;
  • ‘open-source menu’;
  • suburban-like Technopark;
  • city-like Technopole;
  • polycentral radial grid

Abstract

The notion of designing according to building type for some might imply constraint, or even a reversion to convention. In Diploma Unit 6 at the AA in London, Christopher Lee and Sam Jacoby have proved typology can be used to liberating effect, producing series that harness ‘the cumulative intelligence’ of type, while ‘surpassing both its idea and its deep structure’. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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