Eric Owen Moss describes a series of projects that investigate ideas of architectural temporality. He contrasts contemporary society's conception of time in architecture with the notions of permanence found in the architecture of past civilizations. Eric Owen Moss started his office in 1973 in Los Angeles, California. The office has developed an architectural language that reflects an understanding and exploration of a building's impact on its environment while simultaneously acknowledging the contributing factors of context, site, client and program, design and detail in every aspect of the work. The office has designed and completed a wide variety of projects, involving both new construction and unusual renovation and reconstitution of existing structures.