Typological Urbanism: Projective Cities

How can architecture today be simultaneously relevant to its urban context and at the very forefront of design? For a decade or so, iconic architecture has been fuelled by the market economy and consumers' insatiable appetite for the novel and the different. The relentless speed and scale of urbanisation, with its ruptured, decentralised and fast-changing context, though, demands a rethink of the role of the designer and the function of architecture...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 047074720X
• ISBN13: 9780470747209
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Academy Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.2" x 10.6"