The lecture engages the discursive topic of the city within the discipline of architecture. It asks: How does the city affect its buildings?

The tradition within architectural history that identifies the city as the origin of our buildings challenges architects to theorize about the city’s form and use in order to rationalize our own actions. This dissertation responds to that challenge. In opposition to other approaches to the city and its architecture, however, this work does not essentialize the architecture of the city as its type, function, or matter. Instead, I argue that the mode of existence of architecture is inherent to the city itself, which originates its architecture as part of its being as a technical object.

Alongside a thorough reading of the physical and intellectual history of the city, I visualize how architectural and urban elements concretize, when we Gan algortims oar used to the creation of new urban forms.