Architecture, Futurability and the Untimely

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Architecture, Futurability and the Untimely is written by Ingrid Mayrhofer-Hufnagl and published by transcript Verlag. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3839461111 (ISBN 10) and 9783839461112 (ISBN 13).

The planetary instantaneity that digital technologies have enabled is leading to an effacement of the divisions that separate the past from the future, ensuring that the present is ubiquitous. While contemporary architecture seems to have lost the capacity to conceive of the past as a transformative force, this book stresses the need to rethink today's complex temporal mechanisms through the notion of the untimely. This concept opens up a whole spectrum of possibilities to go beyond what seems predictable. The contributors to this book employ critical concepts and architectural design tools in order to offer experimental and speculative approaches for unknown futures of architecture.