Editorial

Time is „an example par excellence of a term that overlaps different disciplines“ writes knowledge theorist Klaus Mainzer in the introduction to his book on time. The concept of time cannot be reduced to physics, for the physical definition of time used by scientists has much to do with the subjective experience of time in both the humanities and the natural sciences. It is precisely because the notion of time extends across different disciplines that the problem of time in architecture encompasses a broad spectrum of themes: the cycle of the seasons and the course of the day, the life cycles of building materials, the suppressed memories of what previously happened at a place and the new time that we await, as research laboratories have promised us materials that can adapt themselves, change or even remember. Martin Steinmann’s article on the university building by Diener & Diener and FOJAB in Malmö (Sweden) illustrates directly why the French word „temps“ can mean both time and weather. The building by Wandel, Hoefer, Lorch & Hirsch for the memorial site in Hinzert (Germany), close to the Luxemburg border, demonstrates that the manipulation of time by means of flashbacks and quick motion is not a method restricted to film: here these architects convincingly deal with the theme of memory in a fragmentary manner. In conversation landscape architect Rainer Zulauf from the practice of Schweingruber Zulauf explains the way they deal with the passage of time, which in their particular metier is far more obviously a part of work than in the field of architecture. What at one point is seen as the natural course of things can, at another, seem like the ravages of time, at one point it may be welcome, at another greatly disliked. Philosopher Ursula Pia Jauch discusses patina and examines the different connotations of age and ageing. Patina, incidentally, comes from the Mediaeval Latin patena that means „a plate to carry the Host, also used to cover the chalice“, i.e. something laid over, covering. Taking a look at the surfaces of buildings and street fronts, Georg Mörsch presents some remarkable thoughts on those precious traces that offer us humans evidence of the passage of things through time. Nothing is „timeless“, not even architecture built „for eternity“. No building material can be timeless, for the traces of time, however miniscule, are everywhere. Something without time would be something without an end but mathematics has already proven that such a thing cannot exist. In this issue an attempt is made to record a few of those individual moments in which time manifests itself in architecture. The editor

Georg Mörsch
Patina – Die freundlichen Spuren der Zeit

Bäume auf Reisen Landschaftsarchitekt Rainer Zulauf im Gespräch

Enrico Santifaller
Angerostet ist nur die Hülle Dokumentationshaus Hinzert von Wandel Hoefer Lorch +Hirsch

Martin Steinmann
Atmosphärenverdichter Universität Malmö von Diener & Diener Architekten

Armin Scharf
Material in der vierten Dimension Smart Materials und Sensortechnik

Ursula Pia Jauch
Alter und altern Künstliche Patina in künstlichen Paradiesen

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Innenarchitektur: Zahnarztpraxis in Chur von Emulsion, Tanja Jörimann und Werner Woodtli
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Nachruf: Harry Seidler
Bauten: Oberstufenschulhaus in Bonstetten von Aeschlimann Prêtre Hasler
Bauten: Erweiterung Dreilindenschulhaus Luzern von Lussi Halter Architekten
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