In this spirit, Jencks Foundation at The Cosmic House and e-flux Architecture have commissioned six new chronograms to reckon with the present day. These new works interrogate techno-optimism and techno-bureaucracy, feminist spatial practice and disciplinary racism, and the ecological implications and productive conditions of architecture. Some of the new diagrams can be seen to fill in the undulating blanks in Jencks’ diagrams, while others offer an entirely different perspective on architectural discourse. Read alongside one another, they shed light on how we got to where we are now and suggest where architecture might be going.

The exhibition has been organised with the Architectural Association (AA) and is on show in the AA Front Members’ Room in Bedford Square. It features contributions by Pier Vittorio Aureli and Marson Korbi, Mario Carpo, Mark Garcia and Steven Hutt, Charles L Davis II and Curry J Hackett, Francesca Hughes and Urtzi Grau, MOULD, and Bryony Roberts and Abriannah Aiken, alongside original material from the Charles Jencks Archive.

Chronograms of Architecture was initiated and commissioned by Jencks Foundation at The Cosmic House in collaboration with e-flux Architecture and has been developed into an exhibition and symposium with the Architectural Association.

Image: Charles Jencks, Architecture 2000: An Evolutionary Tree, 1971. © AA Archives