1 – On Typology – On page 32-33 they talk about how the modernist movement and Le Corbusier wanted to create a mass produced architecture style. Moneo says this rejects the idea of type and its use in understanding architecture as an object. I dont fully understand why a mass produced architecture changes the definition of “type”, wouldn’t you be able to say that mass produced architecture is one type among many types for architecture? It seems to make more sense when framed that Corbusier has changed the definition of architecture or design, rather then type.

2 – Landscapes of Change – On page 60 Kwinter explains Catastrophe Theory, where many forces are linked and effect each other, some times even having an original force linked around to effecting itself. “Catastrophe theory is one method for describing the evolution
of forms in nature. It is essentially a topological theory that describes the behavior of forces in space over time, but its techniques have been extended to many real world phenomena” This theory has many similarities to the Butterfly effect, and another theory which says seemingly random events are not actually random because they can be predicted through statistics. An example being a dog biting a person happens 2000 times a year in X country with a deviation of 100 times a year, so this random event is “random” on a singular level, but overall it fits into a predictable trend. It seems like the Catastrophe theory could also explain in part how brain/memory work, with random forces adding up and effecting each other, like a sound suddenly reminding you of something from years ago.