From architectural type’s foundational definition by A. C. Quatremère de Quincy through to contemporary discourse, the fact that the principles that constitute a type are rooted in precedent infuses type with its own politics and latent critical position regarding history and change. This criticality may be activated or deactivated as a society’s embrace or rejection of its own historical trajectory changes through time. An analysis of three case studies representative of the typological practice of the Turkish architect Sedad Hakkı Eldem illustrates how, due to the politics of type, this criticality waxes and wanes with Turkish society’s changing relationship with its sociocultural status quo. Eldem’s consistency in his use of the Turkish House type within the dramatically transforming circumstances of early Republican Turkey makes evident the embedded politics of type. Understanding the politics of type establishes that type is not a neutral design tool, and that its use implies an ideological position that architects have the agency to define.

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类型的嵌入政治：Sedad Hakkı Eldem 和土耳其之家

从 AC Quatremère de Quincy 对建筑类型的基本定义到当代话语，构成类型的原则植根于先例这一事实为类型注入了其自身的政治和对历史和变化的潜在批判立场。随着社会对其自身历史轨迹的接受或拒绝随着时间的推移而变化，这种临界性可能会被激活或停用。对代表土耳其建筑师 Sedad Hakkı Eldem 的类型学实践的三个案例研究的分析说明，由于类型的政治，这种批判性如何随着土耳其社会与其社会文化现状的变化关系而起伏不定。埃尔德姆在早期共和土耳其急剧变化的环境中使用土耳其房屋类型的一致性表明了类型的嵌入政治。理解类型的政治可以确定类型不是一种中性的设计工具，它的使用意味着建筑师可以定义的意识形态立场。