The Architecture of Time

Participants

CONVENORS:

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Michael Benedikt is an ACSA Distinguished Professor of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin, where he holds the Hal Box Chair in Urbanism and teaches design studio and architectural theory. He is a graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa and of Yale University. Although he has practiced at small scale, he is best known for his writings and lectures worldwide. His books include: For an Architecture of Reality (1987), Deconstructing the Kimbell (1991), Cyberspace: First Steps (1991), Value (1997) and Value 2 (1998), Shelter: The 2000 Raoul Wallenberg Lecture (2001), God Is the Good We Do: Theology of Theopraxy (2007), God, Creativity, and Evolution: The Argument from Design(ers) (2008), and his latest, Architecture Beyond Experience (2020). He has published over a hundred articles and chapters in edited books, and executive edited and contributed to fourteen volumes of CENTER: Architecture and Design in America (1994–2019). As a specialist in the phenomenology of space, he is also the originator of isovist theory, and helped design the app ISOVIST (http://www.isovists.org) by Sam McElhinney of UCA Canterbury.

Contact: mbenedikt@utexas.edu

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Jonathan Hale is an architect and Professor of Architectural Theory at the University of Nottingham. He holds a PhD from Nottingham and an MSc in the History of Architectural Theory from the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include: phenomenology, embodiment, and the philosophy of technology. Publications include: Merleau-Ponty for Architects (Routledge 2017) plus the co-edited volumes Housing and the City (Routledge 2022), The Future of Museum and Gallery Design (Routledge 2018), and Rethinking Technology: A Reader in Architectural Theory, (Routledge 2007). He is Head of the Architecture, Culture and Tectonics (ACT) Research Group at University of Nottingham and was founding Chair of the international subject network: Architectural Humanities Research Association.

Contact: Jonathan.Hale@nottingham.ac.uk

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David Leatherbarrow is Emeritus Professor of Architecture, University of Pennsylvania and Foreign Dean of Southeast University. Born in the United States and educated in the US and England, he has lectured throughout the world and held guest professorships in Britain, Denmark, and China. Questions of how architecture appears, is perceived, and shapes topography direct his research. Among his twelve books are Projecting Urbanity: architecture for and against the city (2023), Book of Ruins, with John Hunt (2022), Building Time: architecture, event, and experience (2020), Three Cultural Ecologies, with Richard Wesley (2018), Architecture Oriented Otherwise (2009), Topographical Stories (2004), Uncommon Ground (2000), and two books co-authored with Mohsen Mostafavi, Surface Architecture (2002) and On Weathering (1993). In 2020 he was awarded the Topaz Medallion, the highest award given by the AIA and ASCA for excellence in architectural education.

Contact leatherb@design.upenn.edu

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Sophia Psarra is a Professor at the Bartlett, University College London, where she also directs the Architectural and Urban History and Theory PhD Programme. She holds a PhD and an MSc from the Bartlett, UCL and a Masters from the Technical University of Athens. Previously, she was Associate Professor at the University of Michigan and Senior Lecturer at Cardiff University. Her research interests are on the relationship between architecture, spatial experience, social relations and cultural meaning. She has studied the visitors’ experience of cultural institutions such as MoMA, New York, and the Natural History Museum, London. She is currently researching the architecture of parliaments and parliamentary spaces of Europe. She has won first prizes in international architectural competitions and her work has been exhibited at Venice Biennale, the George Pompidou Center, NAI Rotterdam, and in London, Berlin, Milan and Athens. She is the author of Architecture and Narrative (2009) and The Venice Variations (2018), editor of The Production Sites of Architecture (2019) and co-editor of Parliament Buildings: The Architecture of Politics in Europe with Uta Staiger and Claudia Sternberg (2023). Additionally, Sophia was the editor of the Journal of Space Syntax (2011-2015).

Contact: s.psarra@ucl.ac.uk

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PRESENTERS:

Simone Chung (SCh)

Simone Shu-Yeng Chung holds a Ph.D. in architecture from the University of Cambridge and practiced as a chartered architect in London. After completing her studies at The Bartlett, University College London, and the Architectural Association School of Architecture, she spent a year in Italy at The British School at Rome as a Rome Scholar in Architecture and Urban Design. Subsequent achievements include the Japan Foundation Asia Center fellowship and CCA Research Fellowship. In 2020–21, Chung served as a curator for the Singapore Pavilion at the Venice Biennale and edited its catalogue. She is currently a GATES Research Fellow funded by ANR-France 2030 at Université Grenoble Alpes.

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Michael Flaherty (MF)

Michael G. Flaherty is Professor of Sociology at Eckerd College and University of South Florida. He is the author of A Watched Pot: How We Experience Time (NYU Press, 1999) and The Textures of Time: Agency and Temporal Experience (Temple University Press, 2011). He is a coauthor of The Cage of Days: Time and Temporal Experience in Prison (Columbia University Press, 2021). He is a coeditor (with Lotte Meinert and Anne Line Dalsgård) of Time Work: Studies of Temporal Agency (Berghahn Books, 2020). During 2016-2017, he was a Marie Curie Fellow at Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies in Denmark.

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Christian Frost (ChF)

Architect and academic Christian Frost worked for architectural firms in London, Berlin, Perth and Melbourne for over ten years before becoming a full time academic. In 2001 he began research into the history of the foun-dation of Salisbury which resulted in the publication of his first book Time, Space and Order: The Making of Medieval Salisbury (Peter Lang, 2009). This book, as well as other research on architecture and heritage, has led to recent AHRC Grant success as a part of a multidisciplinary team working on re-staging musical performances in Coventry from 1451-1652. His latest book Architecture and Cultural Continuity: Festival, Experience and Historicity (Bloomsbury, 2025) uses an in-depth study of the contemporary Festival of San Giovanni in Florence to argue that architecture is best evaluated through active experiences in relation to cultural traditions as well as spatial settings.

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Katerina Michalopoulou (KM) & Antonis Touloumis (AT)

Katerina Michalopoulou, architect and digital artist, holds a PhD from National Technical University of Athens, where her dissertation was titled “The definition of ‘difference’ in architectural structural organization: the integration of temporality into architectural design.” She now teaches in the Interdepartmental/Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Program at NTUA (“Research in Architecture: Design–Space–Culture”) and at the School of Architecture (“Towards Architecture as an Art: The Integration of Temporality in Design”).The winner of several National Architectural Competitions, between 2002 and 2022 she has published six papers on the theme of architecture and time, music, and cinema. Antonis Touloumis is also an architect and digital artist holding a PhD from NTUA. His dissertation was entitled “The inscription of time experience in architecture: the stair as an element of architectural language.” He teaches, practices, writes, and shares honors for the works listed above with Katerina Michalopoulou.

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Frans Sturkenboom (FS)

Frans Sturkenboom is an architect and a lecturer at the Academy of Architecture in Arnhem and the Academy of Architecture in Amsterdam, teaching architectural history and theory. He was also a researcher at Professorship Theory in the Arts at Artez University of the Arts in Arnhem. Among his publications are essays on Frank Lloyd Wright, Carlo Scarpa, and Francesco Borromini. He recently published a book on gesture in architecture, De Gestik van de Architectuur, in which he analyses the late twentieth century shift from an architecture of space to an architecture of deep surface. In September of 2023 he finished his PhD (‘Time in the work of Frank Lloyd Wright’) at the Technical University at Delft.

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Izabela Wieczorek (IW)

Izabela Wieczorek is an EU-registered architect, Associate Professor and Director of Accreditations and Validations at the Bartlett School of Architecture. She holds a MSc in Architecture and Urban Design from Politechnika Krakowska, and a PhD in Architecture from ETSAM Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. Izabela’s research addresses ecological, sensorial, and performative aspects of architecture, with a focus on spatial atmospheres. Her work has been published and exhibited internationally, including Cartographies of the Imagination London (2021), Works+Words Biennale of Artistic Research in Architecture, KADK, Copenhagen (2019), and the Spanish Pavilion at the 16th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia (2018). She is a co-editor of The Handbook of Ambiances and Atmospheres to be published by Routledge (2025).

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DISCUSSANTS:

Tim Anstey (TA)

Tim Anstey is Chair of the PhD Program at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. He is the author of Architecture and Authorship and the designer and cocurator for the international exhibitions Images of Egypt at the Museum of Cultural History, Oslo, and Warburg Models at the Warburg Haus, Berlin and the Architectural Association, London.

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Martin Cobas (MC)

Martín Cobas is a Professor of Architectural History and Design at the Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y Urbanismo of the Universidad de la República, Montevideo, where he also chairs the Department of the History of Architecture. He is a founding editor of the Revista R and the journal Vitruvia.

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Terrance Galvin (TG)

Terrance Galvin, FRAIC, teaches design and histories + theories of architecture. He holds a degree in architecture from the Technical University of Nova Scotia, a Master’s in the History & Theory of Architecture from McGill University, and a doctorate in Architecture from the University of Pennsylvania. He is presently Professor and Founding Director of the McEwen School of Architecture at Laurentian University in Sudbury, Canada.

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Federica Goffi (FG)

Federica Goffi is Professor of Architecture and co-chair of the PhD and MAS programs at the Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism in Ontario. She published Time Matter[s]: Invention and Re-imagination in Built Conservation in 2013 and co-edited the 2024 volume Architectures of Hiding: Crafting Concealment | Omission | Deception | Erasure | Silence, with many publications on the topic of architecture’s temporality in between.

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Linda Heinrich (LH)

Linda Heinrich is a practicing architect, exhibition and lighting designer. Her work for museums in the United States, London, Hong Kong and Tokyo has contributed to the evolving field of exhibition design. She recently completed her PhD at the Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center, where she studied cartoons about dreaming circa 1900 while looking for new ways to make museum spaces. She is currently an exhibition designer at the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery.

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Matthew Mindrup (MM)

Matthew Mindrup is an architect and Associate Professor of Architectural History and Theory at the University of Sydney. His books include The Material Imagination (Routledge, 2015), a co-translation of Bruno Taut’s 1919 anthology The City Crown (Routledge, 2015) and The Architectural Model: Histories of the Miniature and the Prototype, the Exemplar and the Muse (MIT Press, 2019). He is presently completing a monograph Architecture and the Art of Forgetting.

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Graca Correia Ragazzi (GCR)

Graça Correia graduated from Faculdade de Arquitectura do Porto in 1989 and collaborated with Eduardo Souto de Moura until 1995. She founded Correia/Ragazzi Arquitectos in 2005 and defended her PhD thesis at Universitat Politécnica da Catalunha in Barcelona in 2006, which made the final selection for the ARQUIA 2007 Competition. She publishes and lectures widely, her firm receiving several national and international awards.

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Nicholas Temple (NT)

Nicholas Temple is a Senior Professor of Architectural History at the School of Art, Architecture and Design at London Metropolitan University. He is also the Director of the Centre for Urban and Built Ecologies (CUBE). He is chief editor of the Routledge Research in Architectural History series and co-editor of the Journal of Architecture.

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SPECIAL VISITORS:

• Michael Rotondi (Sci_Arc, CA), • Michael Merrill (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany), • Peter Waldman (Univ. of Virginia), • Elise Cawley (Wolfram Research Inc. IL), • Sergei Gepshtein (Salk Institute, La Jolla, CA), • Yelena McLane (Florida State Univ.), • Sam McElhinney (Univ. Creative Arts, Canterbury, UK), • Prue Chiles (Newcastle Univ, UK), • Paul Emmons (Virginia Tech., VA).

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VISITORS / AUDIENCE / PRESS:

The Architecture of Time Workshop event is free and open not only to architects, but to people of all disciplines—from physics and philosophy to art and history, to psychology, sociology, and neuroscience—who are interested in the topic of time as it relates to architectural design, the physical environment, and human experience. Please contact one of the Conveners if you wish to reserve a chair, and/or when arriving, register your name and email so that you can be apprised of post-Workshop discussions and publications.