The New Heritage Laboratory aims to enrich disciplinary engagement with temporality and objecthood in architecture and buildings. All layers of time – historical, contemporary, futural – and the full diversity of constructions of reality are embraced in this endeavour. Buildings are understood as formations in time and place as well as space; and architecture is positioned as constituted by interpretations of presence and recognitions of value.
The New Heritage Lab recognises and encompasses the activity of heritage preservation as a protective impulse against both development and decay, but its aims are very different. We incorporate the full sweep and rhythm of time and temporality, and the sustained gravity of matter and form into the understanding, design, maintenance, and experience of the built environment.