Print Email Facebook Twitter A Flat Theory Title A Flat Theory: Toward a Genealogy of Apartments, 1540–1752 Author Gorny, R.A. (TU Delft Situated Architecture) Contributor Avermaete, T.L.P. (promotor) Radman, A. (copromotor) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Date 2021-10-27 Abstract A Flat Theory presents a first step toward a yet-to-be-completed, larger project: a genealogy of apartments. While centering on the historical formation of apartments, it does not offer a straight-forward history of apartments or flats. Rather, as a contribution to a wider history of the present, it draws together the first synthetic study of the complex processes through which apartments have initially taken form. To do so, it proposes an eco-systemic and assemblage-theoretic extension of genealogical modes of inquiry so as to draw together an epiphylogenetic mapping of this complex process. After situating and specifying this approach, A Flat Theory charts three converging lineages that mark the ‘material-discursive’ formation of appartamenti and appartements as an (I) architectural concept, (II) spatial phenomenon, and (III) residential system during the 1540–1780s in western Europe Subject #architecturearchitecture historyarchitecture theoryapartmentsgenealogyassemblage theorymappingdiagramtopologyflat ontology To reference this document use: https://doi.org/10.4233/uuid:8f7d924d-ad3d-4e90-a05f-1bbdae23146c ISBN 978-94-6366-461-5 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type doctoral thesis Rights © 2021 R.A. Gorny Files PDF Gorny_A_Flat_Theory.pdf 249.67 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:8f7d924d-ad3d-4e90-a05f-1bbdae23146c/datastream/OBJ/view