Throughout the history of architecture, the role of the architect has been to determine lines that ordered the world. In the past two centuries, however, as cities have rapidly expanded into vast urban territories that are increasingly pluralistic, the ability to determine such lines has become progressively more complex and suspect. The notion of indeterminacy within architecture and the city not only halted the project of Modernism but also spawned several trajectories of design that embraced flexible, soft, dynamic and transforming systems to respond to the new needs of the expanding city and its pluralistic inhabitants. The project of contingency embedded within these various trajectories has both plagued and resituated the role of architecture in the urban territory, but has it produced a collective, political, or legible urban realm? Urban Forms of Plurality examines the projects and theorists that emerged in response to the increasingly complex city and heterogeneous public in a quest to discover a template for Public Form. Unpacked through an examination of theoretical texts and projects by Hannah Arendt, Buckminster Fuller, Cedric Price, Yona Friedman, Sanford Kwinter, Archigram, Archizoom, Superstudio, Rem Koolhaas, Stan Allen, Keller Easterling and Konstantinos Doxiadis among others, it positions a new role and relevancy for the Architect who is confronted with an increasingly indeterminate globe and contingent city.

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