The U.C. Berkeley Library maintains an extensive collection of study guides, on topics ranging across the university’s disciplines, from African American Studies to Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies. Within those guides presented under Environmental Design and the Built Environment is a series on Building and Landscape Types, including an astute selection on Typology. It is introduced by this definition from The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology:
“The classification of objects, structures, or specimens by subdividing observed populations into a theoretical sequence or series of groups (types) and subgroups (subtypes) according to consideration of their qualitative, quantitative, morphological, formal, technological, and functional attributes. Once established, typological sequences are often used as a surrogate chronology or culture history.”
Find the Typology study guide here.
