Inhabiting time

Abstract

In recent architecture, design has prioritised an engagement with time through its creation of temporary and highly flexible structures. There has, however, been less focus on how the design of buildings might impact the experience of time of the people who inhabit them. Here the distinguished author and emeritus professor Juhani Pallasmaa, who is renowned for his writings on the phenomenology of architecture, provides a reminder of the importance of what it means to 'dwell in time'.