Lifespan? Contemporary temporality and spatiality in Architecture

Abstract

In the contemporary present of dissent and constant overlapping values, obsolescence is an assiduous characteristic. At the same time, the classical concept of the term Architecture, dominant in the Western since Renaissance, implies stability and solidity. Clearly, there is a tension between these two practices. At least between the concept of the architectural project package, static and totalizing — structure, plan, section, facade — and the effervescent present. But at a time in which relationships are predominantly transient, how to conceive current “limits” of architecture?