Considering the present situation – in spite of post-war wishful thinking – the hypothesis assumes that today’s urban environment is the indirect or partial expression of the inner structure of time and context from which they stem. It is not anymore a direct cultural product of a thorough collective aim that merely answers to contextual needs of the moment in continuous feedback between population and space [...]

In the contemporary activist and architectural debate public space is considered the natural space for democracy and collective life in the city. But the notion of public is connected to the notion of people in the framework of the nation-state political organization. While this model characterized modernity up to the late phases of Fordist society, the category of multitude better suits the complex map of social composition in postfordist society [...]

Since the late sixties, most forms of architectural production have been altered and the system of values has been distorted where the postindustrial city has mainly focused in technology and information. The process of mass production and consumption has been replaced by a post-fordist flexible specialization, where the production of the city changes as quickly [...]

The last fifty years of theory have not managed to produce a consistent body of knowledge about the street and its architecture. On the contrary, human and urban geographers have discussed the street as arendtian space of public appearance, railing against the contemporary disregard for streets as citymaking elements [...]

The central argument of the thesis is that the ‘informal’ urbanization that characterizes the contemporary Greek cities is an immediate derivative of a complex political project with numerous branches, displayed accordingly and primarily by architectural and urban typologies and protocols. As a case-study, the Greek cities and particularly Athens, offer a valid critique on the recent conceptions regarding the distinction between ‘informal’ and ‘formal’ urbanism [...]

Despite reading the city through its complex layers and diverse metaphors, this project engages with the city on a theoretical level; it chooses a grand narrative to formulate a coherent (hi)story of Tehran in a meta-critical framework. The complexity of the spatial structure of Tehran is not only the physical outcome of the delicate interactions between land markets, topography, infrastructure, and regulations, but it has also been shaped by the overlaying of various political layers, of various political projects [...]

Contents 1 The development of the ‘Idea’ of Type 2 Durand: the systematisation of architectural knowledge and procedural differentiation 3 Seriality, Deep Structure and the Diagram 4 Dominant Types and the Ideas of the City 5 Singapore: Dominant Types and the Asian City of Architectural Modernism Christopher C.M Lee is the co-founder and principal of [...]

Labour is the conditio sine qua non of the City. It is not possible to elaborate a Project of the City without conceiving the City itself as an expression of production. Architecture always reflects the general conditions of economy through its own objecthood, by means of plans and sections. Any pressure of the Labour force engendered a different mode of production and, consequently, a different configuration of the territory and the urban fabric