Chronograms of Architecture is based on the key diagrams in the work of the architectural designer, historian and theorist Charles Jencks (1939-2019).
The book accompanies the exhibition of the same name held at CIVA in Brussels from May to September 2025.
Wrapped in a cover that depicts Jencks' diagram 'Battle of the Labels, Late Modernism vs Post-Modernism', the book contains eight diagrams by eight teams of contemporary architects, researchers, and graphic designers created in response 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, one plots the history and influences of circular building strategies, while the other maps the definition of the discipline through chronograms themselves.
Spector Books, 28pp, record sleeve with stapled booklet and 8 posters, 11 b&w and 4 colour illustrations, 2025