- Thursday evening
- Knowledge type: Profession related
- 3 EC
- Formal lecture
- Examination: Practice related assignment
- This English spoken lecture series is part of the mandatory First-year programme Architecture & Urban Design
- This lecture series runs for one whole semester
Typology and Morphology are among the more mythical terms in the vocabulary of architecture and urban planning. Both concepts are open to pragmatic AND theoretical/ideological interpretation so they are very much part of daily (design) practice as well as the polemic battleground. Sure enough, this duality and dual use added to myth and confusion, especially throughout the 20th century.
This lecture series/course explores the origins, significance and present day meaning of Typology and Morphology (in different guises) within both its historical and its contemporary context. While doing so it intersects with the ideological discourse within architecture and urbanism roughly during the last 200 years. However, the series also intensively focuses on the (historical and contemporary) use of type and morphology in its more ‘down to earth’ design context. In short: What’s the meaning of Typology and Morphology as concepts and what’s their role - in past and present?
