Based on Charles Jencks’s famous work, Chronograms of Architectureshows 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 chrono-grams themselves.
Nick Axelis an architect, educator, curator, and the deputy editor of e-flux Architecture. Silvia Franceschiniis curator of the contemporary at CIVA in Brussels. Nikolaus Hirschis an architect, curator, and educator. He is artistic director of CIVA in Brussels. Lily Jencksis executive chair of the Jencks Foundation at The Cosmic House, which she founded. Eszter Steierhofferis a curator, art historian, and director of the Jencks Foundation at The Cosmic House.
