Chronograms of architecture / editors: Nick Axel, Silvia Franceschini, Nikolaus Hirsch, Lily Jencks, Eszter Steierhoffer ; contributions: Pier Vittorio Aureli [and 20 others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Axel, Nick, editor.

Franceschini, Silvia, editor.

Hirsch, Nikolaus, editor.

Jencks, Lily, editor.

Steierhoffer, Eszter, editor.

Aureli, Pier Vittorio, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Historiography.

Architecture.

Architecture--Philosophy.

Jencks, Charles--Influence.

Jencks, Charles.

architectural theory.

Genre:

exhibition catalogs.

graphs.

Exhibition catalogs.

Graphs.

Physical Description:

28 pages : illustrations ; 31 x 32 cm + 8 folded posters

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leipzig : Spector Books ; [Brussels] : CIVA ; [Brooklyn, New York] : e-flux Architecture ; [London, England] : Jencks Foundation at the Cosmic House, May 2025.

Summary:

"Based on Charles Jencks's famous work, Chronograms of Architecture shows eight diagrams by eight teams of contemporary architects, researchers, and graphic designers that respond to the historical moment we live in today, revealing critical and urgent ways of seeing, understanding, and working in the architectural culture of the present. Commissioned by the Jencks Foundation and e-flux Architecture, the first six diagrams bring up questions relating to techno-optimism and techno-bureaucracy, feminist spatial practice and racial disparity, and the ecological implications and productive conditions of architecture. Of the last two - commissioned in conjunction with the exhibition presenting the project at CIVA in Brussels - one plots the history and influences of circular building strategies, while the other maps the definition of the discipline through chrono-grams themselves"--Perimeter Books website, accessed 2026 March 16.

Contents:

Introduction / Nick Axel, Silvia Franceschini, Nikolaus Hirsch, Lily Jencks, Eszter Steierhoffer

Architecture is climate / Mould

Base and superstructure : a vulgar survey of Western architecture / Pier Vittorio Aureli and Marson Korbi

Feminist spatial practices part 1 / Bryony Roberts and Abriannah Aiken

Cul-de-sac / Urtzi Grau and Francesca Hughes

A short but believable history of the digital turn in architecture / Mario Carpo

Visualizing the racial epistemologies of the architectural canon / Charles L. Davis II and Curry J. Hackett

Circular design principles : between theory and practice / Lionel Devlieger, Michaël Ghyoot, Adam Przywara, Karen Steukers, Arne Vande Capelle, Louise Vanhee

Chronogram of chronograms : tensions, mediations and speculations / Maria Fedorchenko and Yeliz Abdurahma.

Notes:

Title from cover.

On the occasion of an exhibition held at the CIVA, Brussels, May 13 - September 28, 2025; Architectural Association, London, October 20 - December 9, 2023.

Local Notes:

On the occasion of an exhibition held at the CIVA, Brussels, May 13 - September 28, 2025; Architectural Association, London, October 20 - December 9, 2023.

Other Format:

Dutch edition

French edition

ISBN:

9783959059091

3959059094

OCLC:

1535487466

Publisher Number:

9783959059091