Timeless      Issue 05

In this issue Peter Eisenman and Christopher Alexander get back together again on this 35th anniversary of their first debate; Eric Peterson reconsiders the rhetoric of Christopher Alexander’s A Pattern Language and its relationship to the architectural manifesto; Robert Crabtree designed a house from the origin and wrote a variety of other abstract thoughts; Andrew Shanken’s Memory Seminar wrote a manifesto to remember; We interview Andrew Holder on the Picturesque, Timeless, and his recent installation “The Kid Gets Out of The Picture”; John Stoughton shows us the timeless future of John Hejduk; Emma Lubbers tells a Timeness story in four parts; Aaron Weller analyses UNESCO’s values for preservation, and discovers the “mystified shed”; Peter Korn confronts fachadismo while reporting from Porto, Portugal; Timothy Wai gathers a hundred architecture sheep in taupe; John Parman interviews Thomas Gordon Smith about The Classical Imagination; Matthew Kernan fragments nostalgia in an economy housing proposal for Aarhus, Denmark; Paul Humphries illuminates the paradox of style; Sigve Knutson translates from drawings to objects; Michelle Rada presents Modernism’s tense as provoked by Sigmund Freud’s understanding of timelessness; Neyran Turan asks “Can Images Implode?” using historical examples and recent work by her rm NEMESTUDIO; Aaron Goldstein plays ball with architectural history and opens up the Eton Fives Court; Andrew Kovacs specifies 20 steps for making beautiful floor plans; Kyle Miller makes new architecture from canonical single-family homes; Adam Nathaniel Furman comes to town and we interview him about his recent work and color (or was it colour?); Bairballiet, Kelly Bair and Kristy Balliet, reveal architecture’s Timeless use of three ploys; Ji Shi and Ivy Feng discuss Apple Inc’s use of copy-paste across scales from keyboards, to screens and even to buildings; Marco Gola, Andrea Brambrilla, Stefano Capolongo and the Open Building Research Group of Alta Scuola Politecnica discuss timelessness as resilience versus resistance and describe their work to design a more flexible hospital based on an open source modular patient room; Filip Tejchman motivates the need for a better rock and a better understanding of entropy.... We present a Foam Parti by Cooper Rogers and Cora Lautze, we interview them too; Whitney Moon convinces us that Cedric Price was Timeless; Levon Fox makes a post-virtual death mask; Common Accounts, Igor Bragado and Miles Gertler, propose to bring death back to the city and play it back forever; Lucas Almássy interviews the faculty, staff and students of the College of Environmental Design and reveals varying notions of Timeless;

Editors: Adam Miller and Alex Spatzier
Graphics Editor: Soo Ok Han
Production Editor: Betsy Clifton
Editorial Assistants: Lucas Almassy, Neal Andrew Barber, Kevin Block, Daniel Haidermota, Jonah Merris, John Paraskevopoulos and Mark Warren
Production: Benjamin Good, Keenan Gravier, Lawrence Lazarides, Cooper Rogers, James Skarzenski, Kei Takanami and Kristen Too
Web: Jonah Merris
Advisory Board: Greg Castillo, Richard Hindle, Ramona Naddaff, John Parman
Cover: Soo Ok Han