AA Diploma 6 tutor Maria Fedorchenko fifth year student Yeliz Abdurahman have been commissioned to contribute a text and graphic artefact to the Chronograms of Architecture project, entitled Chronogram of Chronograms. Fedorchenko and Abdurahman’s project is a provisional and divergent representation of the discipline in transition. It aims to visualise the evolution of core tensions and mediations, and to engage with the project of the chronogram itself. Focusing on the twenty-four-year stretch (2001–2025), it extends the double-axes of extremes from the Charles Jencks’s Evolutionary Tree to the Year 2000 into new complementarities: autonomy and contingency, speculation and action, and imagination and rationality. Between these, three further axes are highlighted as new spin-offs of old tensions: innovation and history, system and form, diagram and narrative. These pairs of concepts are linked to key disciplinary publications, with their scopes and biases, associations and conflicts explored in three main sub-chronograms. Along with the extended axes, the three sub-chronograms are brought together into a meta-construct that deliberately uses dissimilar systems of organisation. It is both an epistemic device and a tool for speculation on alternative pasts and futures.

Chronograms of Architecture is a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and the Jencks Foundation at The Cosmic House within the context of their research programme 'Isms and 'Wasms. This work also features in the exhibition Chronograms of Architecture, curated by Nick Axel, Silvia Franceschini, Nikolaus Hirsch, Lily Jencks and Eszter Steierhoffer at CIVA, Brussels, which is on view from 13 May – 28 September 2025.

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