Quickness: On Rhythms of Time in Contemporary Architecture

In 2020, we started a project on contemporary architecture by identifying three patterns dominating pedagogy and practice.  We come to “Quickness” as the final chapter in this extended investigation, completing a cycle that opened with “Exactitude” and its counterparts and continued with “Multiplicity,” expanding into further networks and matrices.  Our initial premise is that, in the wake of current climatic and environmental crises, architecture needs to integrate reconfiguration, adaptation, even degrowth into the realm of the built environment. Secondly, we posit that new methods of construction, as well as increasingly complex and diverse materials, each with a different impact on the environment, continue to change our field of action.  Finally, we explore how digital platforms have radically shifted our collective horizon of thinking and making.