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Architecture’s Present Perfect, lecture at London’s Architectural Association (AA)

March 12, 2015

Alex holds a lecture at the AA.

The present perfect blurs the gap between past and present. Everything is up to now—nothing is left behind. The present perfect stands for an expression of unfinished time. Unfinished time started in the past and continues into the present. There is no quarantine period between historical facts and contemporary truth. Architecture is a form of presence, yet its history always plays a key role in both its production and interpretation. At best its history is told in the present perfect tense by means of projective speculation to establish a strong, yet individual, and ad hoc connection between then and now.

Thursday, 6pm , March 12, 2015

Kanzlerbungalow, Queen Elizabeth visits Helmut Kohl in 1992.