The result of the Environment, Time, and Architecture theory master class led by Sébastien Marot in collaboration with filmmaker Mauricio Freyre in The Berlage, 2014

A film based on a master class by Sebastien Marot and Mauricio Freyre

This is the strange fruit of a master class where we tried to reflect on some of the larger environmental issues and predicaments that affect the meaning and ways of architecture today: a relay race of young architects through space, time, and environment, the staging of an impossible conversation, a domino game of concerns.

Clearly, the idea that the cosmopolis is "an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen" seems every day more akin to a Ponzi scheme of wishful thinking.

A number of themes—Energy, Autonomy, Prophecy, Entropy, Machines, Elements, Resilience, Memory, Obsolescence—were initially proposed as triggers, to start structuring and polarizing an amorphous latency of concerns into as many sequences of a narrative or journey.

Film is used here as a provocative means of reconnecting architecture with the environment, its fundamental responsibility: giving space to time, and time to space.

An intense race indeed, as Marcel Proust once remarked: "One must think as if he were eternal, and work as if he was to die tomorrow."