ABSTRACT

This chapter considers the practice of architecture through various temporal relations. Particularly, it explores two forms of temporalities: first, stilled stutters, and second, quickened stutters. It is at the turning points of these interplays where affects are triggered. The focus on these stutters attends to the moments of pause that practices of architecture and the design process they partake in often, if not always, come upon. It is in these stilled or waiting times that affects emerge, sticking ideas and bodies together. Of course, the design process does not remain in its stillness, and thereby, the chapter moves on to attend to quickened stutters which allows jumps in the process whereby affects leap forward and project the process forward rapidly. Interrogating and interweaving the stuttering process of non-linear differentiation as framed by Gilles Deleuze, combined with Henri Bergson’s concept of durée (duration) and past as ‘virtual,’ this chapter puts forward an argument towards disjunctive temporalities of practice for a theory of affect in architecture.