Architecture Timed

Designing with Time in Mind

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• Publisher: Academy Press
• Year: 2016
• ISBN:
  9781118910689
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Architecture General

The traditional veneration of architecture for its monumental and enduring qualities seems to be changing. Architects and other designers are moving away from seeking permanence towards a more open, creative use of what time has to offer. This is revealed in new approaches to historic preservation, the proliferation of temporary structures, concerns regarding sustainability, and the employment of time-efficient processes. Architecture Timed explores the role of ideas about time in the design inclinations and choices of contemporary designers of the environment. Contributors consider how the new can be incorporated into the old; how designing for the very short term has significant advantages; how what is temporary can be re-used; and how the design of materials, buildings and landscapes can improve sustainability and enhance experiences of time passing. Many designers have replaced the ideal of 'timelessness' and the view of time as a series of singular, static moments with an enriched and more nuanced perspective, treating time as a source of inspiration to be embraced, not a condition to be defended against.

Contributors include: Juhani Pallasmaa, Brian McGrath, Federica Goffi, Jill Stoner, Richard Garber and Eric Parry.

Designers featured include: Agence Ter, Shigeru Ban, BanG Studio, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, EMF Landscape Architects, Gluck+, GRO Architects, Interboro Partners, Toyo Ito, Kengo Kuma, Enric Miralles, Eric Parry Architects, Carlo Scarpa, Taylor Cullity Lethlean, UNStudio and Peter Zumthor.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Editorial
• About the Guest-Editor
• Introduction: Designing with Time in Mind
• The Nine Lives of Buildings
• Built Conservation and the Unfinished Fabrics of Time
• Juxtaposing the New and the Old
• Time Matters: Transition and Transformation in Architecture
• Inhabiting Time
• Time as a Medium: Early Work of Enric Miralles
• The Presence of the Weather
• Knowingly Unfinished: Exploiting the Temporality of Landscapes
• Matter Timed
• Drawing Time
• Drawing in Time: Processes of Design and Fabrication
• Architecture Takes Time
• Ever Faster But Still Very Good
• No More Stopping
• Visiting Karsten Harries and Revisiting his ‘Building and the Terror of Time'
• Counterpoint Finding Time
• Contributors
• EULA