How to build with what is already there and for what is yet to come? An inconclusive take on architecture and time.

Against the backdrop of climate catastrophe, resource scarcity and growing mountains of waste, the time factor is playing an increasingly important role in architecture. Topics such as circularity, the transformation of existing buildings, reuse and reparability dominate the discourse today. However, the debate is usually purely quantitative: It is about minimizing energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, material consumption and waste.

Time Matters goes one step further and questions the aesthetic and poetic potential that these transformation processes can generate. Today, unstable climatic conditions, changing landscapes and new usage patterns must be anticipated right from the design stage. The apparent contradiction of an unstable context and our desire to create long-lasting buildings opens up possibilities for a new kind of process-based aesthetic.

The book brings together six contributions that shed light on the relationship of architecture to time with a view to past, present and future scenarios, from theoretical essays, mappings and realized interventions to more speculative projects. The texts are accompanied by a series of images with artistic and architectural examples.

With contributions by Urszula Kozminska, Nacho Ruiz Allen, Mo Michelsen Stochholm Krag, Matiss Groskaufmanis, Studio 3A, Alicia Lazzaroni and Antonio Bernacchi, Katrina Wiberg.

How to build with what is already there and for what is yet to come? An inconclusive take on architecture and time.

Against the backdrop of climate catastrophe, resource scarcity and growing mountains of waste, the time factor is playing an increasingly important role in architecture. Topics such as circularity, the transformation of existing buildings, reuse and reparability dominate the discourse today. However, the debate is usually purely quantitative: It is about minimizing energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions, material consumption and waste.

Time Matters goes one step further and questions the aesthetic and poetic potential that these transformation processes can generate. Today, unstable climatic conditions, changing landscapes and new usage patterns must be anticipated right from the design stage. The apparent contradiction of an unstable context and our desire to create long-lasting buildings opens up possibilities for a new kind of process-based aesthetic.

The book brings together six contributions that shed light on the relationship of architecture to time with a view to past, present and future scenarios, from theoretical essays, mappings and realized interventions to more speculative projects. The texts are accompanied by a series of images with artistic and architectural examples.

With contributions by Urszula Kozminska, Nacho Ruiz Allen, Mo Michelsen Stochholm Krag, Matiss Groskaufmanis, Studio 3A, Alicia Lazzaroni and Antonio Bernacchi, Katrina Wiberg.