You're Not My Type #1

What is the political economy of architectural type? What is the complicity between type, finance and urban development? In her research project Cooperative Conditions with Anne Kockelkorn, Susanne Schindler departs from the type of the cooperative, to look at the mutual dependency of the architecture of cooperative housing and its political and economic regulation. By looking at the form of architecture and the city in conjunction with the history of this particular political economy of housing, the research articulates scopes of action for architects today.

Susanne Schindler is an architect and historian focused on the intersection of policy and design in housing. She is co-director of the MAS program in history and theory of architecture at gta, ETH Zurich.