Essays in Architectural Criticism. Alan Colquhoun
When I watch my son Luther build with Legos, he always starts with a basic structure - a rectangle. To me, a rectangle is a type of a shape that is balanced. It makes a good base to build upon. Sure, from this comes some extraordinary forms, buildings and Star Wars fighting ships, but under it all was a rectangle. I think in a way this is what Colquhoun is saying that though Typology may not be the best method to invoke criticism, it yet provides an accurate description of a part of - say a Lego structure.
It must be very intriguing to see what Luther comes up with in Lego form! Did you teach him to start with a rectangle or did he just naturally do that? I think we all start our designs with a basic typology, or the basic building blocks, and each design decision we make changes the typology ever so slightly. If you asked Luther to build this vehicle again, would it look exactly the same?
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