Beschreibung:
PRAUD was founded by Dongwoo Yim and Rafael Luna in 2010, with offices in Boston and Seoul. Their theoretical investigations and criticism of the contemporary language in architecture spans over a decade of academic appointments, completed international projects, awarded competitions, and multiple publications and exhibition roles. This led them to win awards such as the Architectural League Prize in 2013, the DAM book award, and exhibited internationally at MoMA, Venice Biennale, and Seoul Biennale on several occasions. They curated the "Cities Exhibition" at the 2019 Seoul Biennale, co-directed the Future School Summer School program for the 2020 Venice Biennale Korean Pavilion, and served as guest editors for the October 2021 issue of AD magazine entitled "Production Urbanism: the Meta-Industrial City."
As a way to understand the contemporary project in architecture, this book provides an index of ideas, theories, projects, and definitions that string into a methodology for evaluating the contemporary language of architecture described as "contemporism" through a review of topology (form) and typology (system and elements).
PROLOGUE Toyo Ito INTRODUCTION by PRAUD with guest essay by Anthony Vidler INDEX Part 1 Topology INDEX Part 2 Typology TO/TY as METHODOLOGY Concluding analysis and speculations.