This competition is an invitation to design the experience of time through architecture. At a fundamental level, to design the transformation of an existing building means to confront the existence of architecture in time. Built over sixty years ago, the Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum and Library undeniably belongs to a "different" time. How is this "other" time relevant to "our" time?
If time is deposited or registered in architecture, then designers are asked to make proposals that take a critical position towards the parts of the Cranbrook Academy of Art that are marked by relevant time, and those in which time is irrelevant. On the basis of this distinction, projects should express their philosophy for retaining or eliminating the various elements of the existing buildings. By extension, designs should visualize innovation strategies for depositing or building up our time in the architecture of Cranbrook.
Held by Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture
