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 chronograms themselves.
