The Fourth Dimension · Design Writing
Designing in time
Architecture is not limited to three dimensions. Time is the fourth. A building is shaped not only by its plan, elevation, and materials, but by the time it takes to imagine, decide, build, inhabit, maintain, and remember.
A continuing series of reflections drawn from more than twenty-six years of practice — on land, decisions, time, and the quieter forces that shape whether a building merely gets completed, or truly endures.
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