ABSTRACT
Typology, the study of types or classes of objects, has long served to catalyze debates about both representation and invention. In architecture the types in question may be defined by form (such as central plan churches), by their presumed originary role (such as the “primitive hut”), by program or function (schools and museums), or by a historical sedimentation of characteristics (for example, English terrace housing). “Types” are objects of study, and “typology” is the study of them.
