Embodied Time: Temporal Cues in Built Places

***Shortlisted for the Architectural Book Awards 2024***

The word time occurs more than seven times as often as space in written English, yet in the design of the indoor environments where we now spend most of our lives these priorities are typically reversed, with time often being little more than an afterthought. Embodied Time endeavors to correct that imbalance by demonstrating how built environments can be designed to evoke positive recollections of the past, interactions with the present, and anticipations of the future.

Kevin Nute is a professor of architecture at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa. His other books include The Constructed Other (2021), This Here Now (2020), Naturally Animated Architecture (2018), Place, Time and Being in Japanese Architecture (2004), and Frank Lloyd Wright and Japan (1993).