Sun-Young Park, an architecture PhD student at Harvard shared with us a review on the Typology Redux Conference at Northeastern University in Boston. Read the complete review after the break.
While the notion of type has waned in architectural discourse in recent decades, it has emerged as one of the dominant forces guiding real-estate development today. Typology Redux, a conference organized by Northeastern University and Tim Love, Associate Professor and Principal of Utile, began with this apparent paradox to interrogate new theoretical frameworks for designers operating within these market demands. Typology, it seems, has re-entered architectural praxis through the back door.
