Architecture, Multitude and the Analogical City as a Critical Project

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Architecture and Culture Pub Date : 2020-07-31 DOI:10.1080/20507828.2020.1788296

Cameron McEwan

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Abstract

Abstract 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?

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建筑，大众和类比城市作为一个关键项目

摘要本文提出了一种建筑的大众化理论。这篇文章仔细阅读了政治理论家保罗·维尔诺的大众概念及其相关的语言、重复和维尔诺所说的“真正的抽象”类别。文章将这些类别转换为阿尔多·罗西关于类型学、作为文本的城市和类比城市的思想。其目的是探索重新启动建筑关键项目的可能性条件，并阐明建筑构建集体政治主题的能力。因此，要解决的关键问题是，维尔诺的大众语法如何转化为城市的建筑语法；建筑如何构成一个集体政治主题？

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