Architecture, Multitude and the Analogical City as a Critical Project

This article develops a theory of the multitude for architecture. It is a close-reading of political theorist Paolo Virno’s concept of the multitude and its associated categories of language, repetition and what Virno calls “real abstraction.” The article transposes those categories to the thought of Aldo Rossi on typology, the city as a text and the analogical city. The aim is to explore the conditions of possibility for a renewed critical project for architecture and to articulate architecture’s capacity for framing a collective political subject. The key questions addressed are therefore how does Virno’s grammar of the multitude translate into an architectural grammar for the city; and how can architecture frame a collective political subject

Shanghai reflections : architecture, urbanism and the search for an alternative modernity with essays

216hlm.;bib.;ill

Urbanism : architecture and the American city

189hlm.;bib.;ill.;indeks;24 cm

X-urbanism : Architecture And The American City

189 hlm., bibl., ill., indexs, 25 c

Architecture - Between Memory and Amnesia

plan (drawing), massing plan and views of possible modes of relationship between architecture and public spac

Submission for Roosevelt Island Housing Design Competition

drawing, view from the East Rive

Architecture Lecture | Mario Gandelsonas, November 13, 1997

Architect Mario Gandelsonas discussed the influence of Alberti\u27s De re aedificatoria (On the Art of Building), the development of American cities, Duchamp, and several of his projects. They include Goose Island, Chicago; China Basin, San Francisco; Melrose Community Center, NYC; House on Sag Pond, NY; and Xujiahui, Shanghai.https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/archives_architecturelectures/1020/thumbnail.jp

Agrest and Gandelsonas : works /

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