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100	1		_aTrummer, Peter, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe city as a technical being : _bon the mode of existence of architecture. / _cby Peter Trummer. _htxt
264		1	_aNovato, Calif. : _bORO editions, _c2023.
300			_a377 p. : _bill. ; _c24 cm. _fbook
336			_2rdacontent _atext _btxt
336			_2rdacontent _astill image _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
505			_aFOREWORD by Graham Harman 7 -- ABSTRACT 13 -- INTRODUCTION 15 -- CHAPTER 1: THE CITY AS THE ORIGIN OF ARCHITECTURE 35 -- 1.1. The City and Mechanology 35 -- 1.2. A Fourfold Diagram of the Architecture of the City 41 -- 1.2.1. Matter: Deeper than Form and Use 43 -- 1.2.2. Type: Deeper than Form and Zero-Use 53 -- 1.2.3. Function: Deeper than Use and Zero-Form 63 -- 1.2.4. Object: Deeper than Zero-Form and Zero-Use 75 -- 1.3. Thesis 85 -- CHAPTER 2: THE CITY AS A TECHNICAL BEING 103 -- 2.1. The Mousgoum Village 103 -- 2.2. The Kind of Technical Object the City Is 117 -- 2.2.1. The City as a Megamachine 123 -- 2.2.2. The City as a Proto-subjective Machine 127 -- 2.2.3. The City as a Hyperobject 133 -- 2.2.4. The City as a Technical Being 139 -- CHAPTER 3: THE FIVE INDIVIDUATED CITIES 155 -- 3.1. The City as an Enclosure 163 -- 3.2. The City as a Grid 173 -- 3.3. The City as a Line 185 -- 3.4. The City as an Archipelago 201 -- 3.5. The City as a Solid 225 -- CHAPTER 4: THE ARCHITECTURE TUNED BY THE CITY 267 -- 4.1. The City on a Single Roof 277 -- 4.2. The Architectural Ensembles of the City: From Alberti to the Re-origination of Simondon 285 -- 4.3. Concretization One: In Which a Building Converges with a Street 313 -- 4.4. Concretization Two: In Which a Building Converges with a Public Square 321 - 4.5. Concretization Three: In Which a Building Converges with a Ground 329 -- CONCLUSION: CITOLOGY; OR, HOW THE CITY TUNES ARCHITECTURE 347 -- BIBLIOGRAPHY 355 -- ILLUSTRATION CREDITS 376 --
520			_aThe city is the largest human artifact. It is made by us, yet simultaneously it makes us, as well as all other nonhuman entities. The particular discourse to which this book on the city contributes is the discipline of architecture. It explores a simple question: How does the city effect the mode of existence of its buildings?
650		0	_aArchitecture _xPhilosophy.
650		0	_aCities and towns -- Philosophy. _9210568
650		0	_aCities and towns _973674 _zTechnological innovations
650		0	_aArchitectural theory _9301940
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