Type and Typology in Architecture

Architecture is not a stone; It’s the prior thought behind design process; which could got from Forms;sketches or images and even verbally; and all summarizes through the concepts of Type and Typology in Architecture by its time transformations; Typology is architecture itself, it’s represent era imprint and it’s classifying Architectural movements, including its philosophical and theoretical ideas and even the applied. That’s made the Theory of Type in architecture deals with the thoughts and stone. Therefore the research aim is to mention the meaning transformation of the Type and Typology concepts; and clarify specific definitions for each of them; which considered challenge due to the conception transformation for them and their wide uses in the other fields. So, the research aims to examine type and typology importance in architecture, and the importance for the type double nature in the self-formal construction due to the culture fluencies and mixing. The research problem on how the Architecture benefits from the overall type theory, from the overview of preliminary research and chapters. Type is the active autonomous tool in the architectural design, and it’s the idea behind the image transferred to the observer. Although of the types’ prior existence; but it’s discovered according to its position; since the types are classified according to their positions; therefore the Ideal Types are the types in the Ideal world which it’s prior existence and its first physical presentation called the Prototype; after that the repetition of the prototype calls Stereotype; and due to these repetitions of the Stereotype; the type stand in the human mind and be as a human nature; when the type reaches to this position it is calls Archetype. And there are many other types classified according to their essence and formal properties; example: Active Type, Developed Type and Originating Type and others. The need of type and its origins theory research to define and discover the importance of the Type in language and architecture, and discuss its theoretical and continuity concept, as well as in autonomous architectural view with concept like Form, Meaning, Function, and Material.In the other hand, Typology stands in the theory of typology which is filled with meaning and different from the first half. It describes the era properties by the Typology Succession Process; therefore the research aims to define the architectural Typology by discussing its concept and importance in architecture. And explores the elementary and mechanical Typology and their properties, and its legitimacy in architecture.In Architecture which is the research third revolve; the importance of the Type and Typology Concepts in practice; for discussing great cases in architecture like first architecture origin. Although the bid difference between the rationalism and empiricism; they agreed that the type is the origin in first architecture; and it’s extrude all the architectural splendor of luxury. The Type Theory used in understands and analysis all architectural projects; since it’s the real standard in the architectural appreciation; and is giving real picture for the different types benefits in these projects. In spite of possibility project presentation according to many types; but some types are more useful from others in a project. These projects are decided by theory of type or by providing new types to meet the needs of the community. As well as; Theory of Type clarifies the accurate joints between typologies and the architectural revolutions in the history; the classical typology for example; adopted on the theory of complementarily with nature against which earlier in the architecture of the Baroque and Rococo; by its imitation with the Greek or Roman model. Where the theory of Typology tell us by the two typologies (classical and the pre-classical in baroque & rococo) are different, but they are not opposing; as is the case between Modernism and Classicism; they both derives their legitimacy from other
sources outside architecture, in the other hand; the unitary holistic view of the modernism typology helped to break architect character and the architectural work in the community. But the city typology different from the previous typologies; it’s take its legitimacy from the architectural field, trying to fix the modernism faults by using the collective memory which stands in the human minds. The Conclusion is reviewing summarizing of previous chapters and put forward recommendations and the beneficiaries of the research