ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how the past, present and future have been integrated into a group of contemporary buildings. While none of these structures was designed with a consciously temporal agenda in mind, each nonetheless includes time, and in the process offers some additional strategies to those previously discussed. The forest retreat that Frank Lloyd Wright designed for the Pittsburgh department store mogul Edgard Kaufmann in the early 1930s has been described by Simon Unwin as essentially a built interpretation of a camp fire on a boulder overlooking a waterfall. Manipulations of time begin long here long before one has reached the house itself. As at the Kaufmann House, anticipation begins at Sea Ranch well before one has entered the buildings. Here, the primary means of achieving delay are two connected courtyards, which gradually increase the sense of expectation, only to finally dramatically release it.
