Acceleration, Slowness examines the shifting relationship between architecture, technology, and culture in a time of ecological crisis and digital transformation. Moving between theory, narrative, and experiment, the book traces how generative methods and artificial intelligence challenge architectural imagination, at times accelerating it and at other times forcing it to slow down.
Through reflections on language, ethics, and method - and through a case study on the transformation of a vacant barn - the book explores how new tools might coexist with imagination and craft. It is not a manual, but an open-ended inquiry into how architecture can remain critical and imaginative within the tension between speed and stillness.
Rather than offering conclusions or fixed methods, this book invites reflection. It shares processes, trial and error, and techniques shaped by a time of restraint and profound change.
Author: Peter Allan Klode Gustafson
Year: 2025
Support: Made possible with support from Boligfonden Kuben
Printing: Nilz Otto Graphics, Oslo
Extent: 84 pages
Acceleration, Slowness examines the shifting relationship between architecture, technology, and culture in a time of ecological crisis and digital transformation. Moving between theory, narrative, and experiment, the book traces how generative methods and artificial intelligence challenge architectural imagination, at times accelerating it and at other times forcing it to slow down.
Through reflections on language, ethics, and method - and through a case study on the transformation of a vacant barn - the book explores how new tools might coexist with imagination and craft. It is not a manual, but an open-ended inquiry into how architecture can remain critical and imaginative within the tension between speed and stillness.
Rather than offering conclusions or fixed methods, this book invites reflection. It shares processes, trial and error, and techniques shaped by a time of restraint and profound change.
Author: Peter Allan Klode Gustafson
Year: 2025
Support: Made possible with support from Boligfonden Kuben
Printing: Nilz Otto Graphics, Oslo
Extent: 84 pages
I will ship books once a week - be patient with the postage please - All the best , Peter
