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.
