Typo: On Typology and Error

Typology, particularly as defined by J.N.L. Durand, isreliable as a systemized process of producing architecturalknowledge. It is both a standard againstwhich one measures difference and a method of(re)producing formal and organizational models.Error, on the other hand, is by definition an aberrationfrom an expected result and typically sought tobe avoided. This paper positions the typical againstthe deviant as an insurgent model for architecturalproduction employed by a host of contemporaryand emerging architects. In revealing discordantpositions the grounds for an alternative strategy arestaged whereby the method of typological productionitself is imbued with error.

Volume Editors
Urs Peter Flueckiger & Victoria McReynolds

ISBN
978-1-944214-16-6