Fufurasu : Typology

Tuesday 7^th of October 2003, 1:14

Typology

And so, today, with my PhD thesis in its last throes, I started teaching in the first year studio again and I joined the second year of the MArch degree. I am an undergraduate again! (Because of an anomaly due to its BArch legacy the Master of Architecture degree is still considered an undergraduate degree at Bath.)

During Adam Caruso’s pitch for his studio option he asked the year if anyone knew what “typology” means. I spent a few seconds trying to come up with a definition that didn’t include the words “schemata” and “heuristics” before Adam defined it by example. The word typology, meaning the study or classification of types, is invariably misused in an architectural context, where it’s used to mean “type.” For example, the phrase “library typology” is used to refer to the library building type. This is tantamount to using the word “zoology” to mean “animal” (”The elephant is a four-legged zoology.”), but this misuse has now become incredibly commonplace. I wonder what’s under the “typology” lemma in this dictionary.

Comments

Nigel Tuesday 7^th of October 2003, 16:13

are you done yet? are you done yet? are you done yet? are you done yet? are you done yet? are you done yet? are you done yet? are you done yet? are you done yet? are you done yet? are you done yet? are you done yet? are you done yet? are you done yet? are you done yet? are you done yet? are you done yet? are you done yet? are you done yet? are you done yet? are you done yet? are you done yet? are you done yet? are you done yet? are you done yet? are you done yet?

Orestes Tuesday 7^th of October 2003, 20:41

Any year now.

Nigel Wednesday 8^th of October 2003, 10:27

Are the powers-that-be accommodating the new PhD timetable?

Orestes Wednesday 8^th of October 2003, 11:33

I am delaying registration until I have submitted the thesis. But that should happen probably by early next week.

Fab Wednesday 8^th of October 2003, 22:42

i need some more typing-ology please!

eLfie Friday 10^th of October 2003, 19:08

fer gawd sakes.. finish it already.. waiting fer ya to come out and play like all the rest of us UNDERGRADS!! :P

Raphael Tuesday 14^th of October 2003, 12:02

I agree with each of Nigel’s questions. I also respect each question’s uniqueness, as each has a different number of precedents of similar form, and hence distinguishable through contextual differentiation. Therefore, I hope Nigel honoured such existence by writing each by hand.
Anyway, I have a different question:
are you done yet?