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Author:   Peter Trummer
Publisher:   Oro Editions
Imprint:   Oro Editions
Weight:   0.970kg
ISBN:  

9781957183558

ISBN 10:   1957183551
Pages:   307
Publication Date:   20 February 2024
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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FOREWORD by Graham Harman 7 ABSTRACT 13 INTRODUCTION 15 CHAPTER 1: THE CITY AS THE ORIGIN OF ARCHITECTURE 35 1.1. The City and Mechanology 35 1.2. A Fourfold Diagram of the Architecture of the City 41 1.2.1. Matter: Deeper than Form and Use 43 1.2.2. Type: Deeper than Form and Zero-Use 53 1.2.3. Function: Deeper than Use and Zero-Form 63 1.2.4. Object: Deeper than Zero-Form and Zero-Use 75 1.3. Thesis 85 CHAPTER 2: THE CITY AS A TECHNICAL BEING 103 2.1. The Mousgoum Village 103 2.2. The Kind of Technical Object the City Is 117 2.2.1. The City as a Megamachine 123 2.2.2. The City as a Proto-subjective Machine 127 2.2.3. The City as a Hyperobject 133 2.2.4. The City as a Technical Being 139 CHAPTER 3: THE FIVE INDIVIDUATED CITIES 155 3.1. The City as an Enclosure 163 3.2. The City as a Grid 173 3.3. The City as a Line 185 3.4. The City as an Archipelago 201 3.5. The City as a Solid 225 CHAPTER 4: THE ARCHITECTURE TUNED BY THE CITY 267 4.1. The City on a Single Roof 277 4.2. The Architectural Ensembles of the City: From Alberti to the Re-origination of Simondon 285 4.3. Concretization One: In Which a Building Converges with a Street 313 4.4. Concretization Two: In Which a Building Converges with a Public Square 321 4.5. Concretization Three: In Which a Building Converges with a Ground 329 CONCLUSION: CITOLOGY; OR, HOW THE CITY TUNES ARCHITECTURE 347 BIBLIOGRAPHY 355 ILLUSTRATION CREDITS 376

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Peter Trummer is a professor for urban design and urban planning at the University of Innsbruck and currently the Dean of the Faculty of Architecture. He is a visiting faculty member for the architectural design and architectural theory program at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles.

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