Since the beginning of the century, the field of architecture has
fervently turned its attention to documenting the contemporary
urban condition. Every city been has been examined as a repository
of architectural concepts, scrutinized as an urban manifesto, and
recorded as a series of found objects. The Ordinary articulates a
potential genealogy for this practice and for the genre of books
derived from it. Organized around conversations with the authors of
three seminal texts that document the city-Denise Scott Brown's
Learning from Las Vegas (1972), Rem Koolhaas's Delirious New York
(1978), and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto's Made in Tokyo (2001)-this volume
traces the history of these "books on cities" by examining the
material they recorded, the findings they established, the
arguments they advanced, and the projects they promoted. These
conversations also question the assumptions underlying this
practice and whether in its ubiquity it still remains a space of
opportunity.
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