The
School of Architecture is pleased to introduce Acroterion 2005-2006, a publication featuring student work that demonstrates
the best of refinement and design.
This issue explores building typologies in architecture and urbanism. The term “building typologies” refers to the study of the natural, or the most appropriate forms that buildings assume in connection with their intended function. In this sense building types can be said to represent an ideal integration of form and function. This notion may also be expanded to include a building’s civic role and hence it’s intrinsic cultural meaning. While the conception of building types may differ somewhat from culture to culture, they reflect a common understanding with regard to the role of buildings in the larger urban context. This is why societies around the world and across time produce remarkably similar buildings. What links them across space and time is not merely the fact that they look like each other, but that they aspire toward a common civic end. Building types, as Acroterion 2005-2006 demonstrates, do not refer to actual buildings, but the idealized union of form and program toward common cultural and, ultimately, civic, ends.
Acroterion 2005-2006 is available for purchase on the Architecture Store.
