The city is the largest human artefact. It is made by us, yet
simultaneously it makes us, as well as all other nonhuman entities.
The particular discourse to which this book on the city contributes
is the discipline of architecture. It explores a simple question:
How does the city effect the mode of existence of its buildings?
The tradition within architectural history that identifies the city
as the origin of our buildings poses a challenge to us, as
architects, to theorise about the city’s form and use in order to
rationalise our own actions. In opposition to other disciplinary
approaches to the city and its architecture, the book argues not
for type (Rossi, Ungers) as the deepest aspect of the architecture
of the city. Neither will it be the function (Venturi & Scott
Brown, Koolhaas) of the city to explain its material organisation,
nor is matter considered (Jacobs, Banham) to be deeper than the
real city. Instead, this book argues that the mode of existence of
architecture is inherent to the city itself, which originates its
architecture as part of its being as a technical object.
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