Outpost Office (Assistant Professors of Architecture Ashley Bigham and Erik Hermann) were selected as Artists in Residence at Headlands Center for the Arts for spring 2023. 

While at the Headlands, Bigham and Hermann are experimenting with drawings and other forms of media to consider multiple timescales in the built environment. They look to advocate for poly-temporal architecture in their writing, installations, and buildings that consider the extended lifecycle of material sourcing, planning, construction, use, and obsolescence. 

While at Headlands

[Outpost Office] are pursuing new means and methods for “timeful architecture,” a term we use to describe unfinished, seasonal, temporary, and adaptive forms of architecture.

We will be experimenting with drawings and other media to consider manifold timescales in the built environment, focusing not on architectures of fixity and predictability but on affordance and mutability. In our writing, installations, and buildings we advocate for a poly-temporal architecture that considers the extended lifecycle of material sourcing, planning, construction, use, and obsolescence. 

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