Architecture, Futurability and the Untimely

1. Why did you choose this topic?

I have always been interested in the epistemological question of architecture, how we make things, how we perceive space, and especially the epistemological function of technologies how they disclose our way of seeing. Thereby the aspect of time has always been of central concern as time is crucial to spatial experience. I think that this is more important today than ever before as we are confronted with time trajectories that go far beyond our cultural narratives.

2. What new perspectives does your book offer?

The volume deals theoretically and experimentally with the heterogeneous and contingent visions of architecture by developing a genuine philosophical understanding of temporality. It illuminates the temporal spectrality that converge in architecture/architectural object.

3. What makes your topic relevant for current research debates?

The climate crisis demands to think and act on much larger time scales simultaneously computational devices act within nano-seconds both exceed human temporal sensibilities. This implies a radical transformation of our relationship to time at which architecture really operates and how the different time scales can be leveraged in architecture.

4. Your book summary in one sentence:

In the words of Soren Kierkegaard: »Time itself is the task.«