Chronograms of Architecture

The symposium brings together participants in the Chronograms of Architecture project, past, present, and future. An introduction to the project by Eszter Steierhoffer (director Jencks Foundation) and a lecture by Lily Jencks on Charles Jencks’ diagrams of architecture will be followed by a series of presentations and a panel discussion featuring contributors to the exhibition. Maria Fedorchenko (Architectural Association London) and Rotor co-founder Lionel Devlieger (UGent) will present their new chronograms, commissioned on the occasion of the exhibition at CIVA, and Francesca Hughes (Yale University) and Tatjana Schneider/MOULD (TU Braunschweig) will present their chronograms that were first exhibited at the Architectural Association and initially commissioned by e-flux Architecture and Jencks Foundation at The Cosmic House. Following a short break and guided tour of the exhibition, the symposium will continue with a presentation by Nana Biamah-Ofosu (Architectural Association London) of her work-in-progress Chronogram, which is to be presented in 2026 in Johannesburg, as well as a presentation by Sam Jacob (London / Vienna) about his recent explorations of Jencksian chronograms through large language models.

Chronograms of Architecture originated as a collaboration between the Jencks Foundation at The Cosmic House and e-flux architecture.