Ardeth #14

TIME. As content for designing

AA.VV., Pavel Kuznetsov, Manuela Raitano

• Publisher: Rosenberg & Sellier
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN: 9791259934161
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Architecture
• Subtopic: Architecture Design

In the realm of hard sciences, time is seen as moving forward towards the future, providing a framework for navigating the entropy and disorder of systems.
Time is seen subjectively in the humanities, as Bergson describes it in terms of recursive cycles exposed via sentient experience. From both angles, humanity is inevitably susceptible to time; either they die from entropic dispersion or depersonalizing repetition.
Much like science, myth reminds us that time ultimately devours life. But it also points to a possible escape: though Cronus eats his offspring, except for the youngest one, Zeus, who is saved by a stratagem "devised" by his mother Rhea – that is, replacing the baby with a stone. The image of the father suppressing the next generation is then replaced by the myth of the future emerging from the past, when all children are regurgitated by means of another of Zeus' tricks. Thus, the myth implies that intellect (the trick) and intellectual works (the stones) can transcend time: if human beings cannot endure their extreme transience, they can endure the lesser transience of their "constructions" in time. Born to last either physically or as collective memory, the very essence of architecture engages in a (titanic) survival endeavour. Yet, in an era anchored to the myths of perennial youth, shall we also allow the right to be forgotten?

Table of contents

• Note from the Director-Nota della direttrice
• Timing, Spacing,Architecting - Fare tempo, fare spazio,fare architettura
• Editorial
• Museum/Bówùguǎn. A Conversation with LiuJiakun About Time Issues in Architecture in China
• Between Time and Style. A Conversation With AliceRoegholt on the Het Schip Museum and the “Courage toLook Forward”
• Persistenza e vulnerabilità. Gli strati contemporanei nelpatrimonio architettonico
• Oltre la dicotomia traautenticità e riproducibilità. Quali prospettive per i luoghidell’eterotopia?
• Behind That Locked Door: Archives Between Hoardingand Surveillance
• Temporal-spatial Paradigmsin Chinese DomesticArchitecture
• The Pace of Change.The Diverging Development of Tossi’s Built Environment and Living Community
• Futures Digging Up Present: Towards the New GeneralRegulatory Plan of Turin
• Reading Mutations: An Urban Diagram of Time
• L’ombra come processosottrattivo
• Ti con zero. La vita oltrela vita: catástilosi di unastruttura modulare aperta