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The Deep Time Project
  • Transtectonics
  • Cinematic-Essays
  • Words
  • Worlds
  • Material-Events

Material-Events are processes, interactions in time between matter, human and environmental forces. The traces of these events take the form of material experiments, buildings, landscapes,   cinematic-essays, texts, exhibitions—each becoming a medium for world-making and world-knowing.

We understand architecture as a deep time material event.

Paper Chandeliers

Paper Chandeliers

Transtectonics, 2025
Carbon to Rock

Carbon to Rock

Transtectonics, 2021

Deep Time Architecture. Building as Material Event

Author: Cristina Parreño Alonso Journal of Architectural Education, 2021.
Tectonics of Transparency

Tectonics of Transparency

Transtectonics, 2025
Tectonics of Wisdom

Tectonics of Wisdom

Transtectonics, 2025

Deep and Shallow Timescales of the Builtsphere

Author: Cristina Parreño Alonso Log Magazine, 2022
The Book at the Edge

The Book at the Edge

Architecture, 2025
Rock In Full Metal Jacket

Rock In Full Metal Jacket

Transtectonics, 2025
Glass Tower

Glass Tower

Transtectonics, 2025
MAC

MAC

Transtectonics, 2025
Boulle-Box

Boulle-Box

Architecture, 2025
Social Housing Madrid

Social Housing Madrid

Transtectonics, 2025
Plyglass

Plyglass

Transtectonics, 2025
Wooden Bubble

Wooden Bubble

Transtectonics, 2025
Museum and Library in Taichung

Museum and Library in Taichung

Architecture, 2025

The Builtsphere. A Broken Geological Paradigm

Author: Cristina Parreño Alonso Journal of Architectural Education, 2022
Ghost of Stone

Ghost of Stone

Transtectonics, 2025
Red Extender

Red Extender

Architecture, 2025
Chicago

Chicago

Architecture, 2025
Artificial Landscape

Artificial Landscape

Architecture, 2025
Transtectonics - Wiesner Gallery

Transtectonics - Wiesner Gallery

Worlds, 2025
Carbon to Rock -  La Biennale di Venezia 2021

Carbon to Rock - La Biennale di Venezia 2021

Worlds, 2025
Transtectonics InConstruction - Benenson Center

Transtectonics InConstruction - Benenson Center

Worlds, 2025

Tectonics of Perception

Author: Cristina Parreño Alonso Journal of Architectural Education, 2019
The Deep Time Project - Wiesner Gallery

The Deep Time Project - Wiesner Gallery

Worlds, 2025
Tectonics of Wisdom: Public Architecture and Material Event

Tectonics of Wisdom: Public Architecture and Material Event

Worlds, 2025
Carbon to Rock Studio

Carbon to Rock Studio

Worlds, 2025
Igneous Tectonics Studio

Igneous Tectonics Studio

Worlds, 2025
The Deep Time Project

The Deep Time Project

Cinematic-Essays, 2025
Carbon to Rock

Carbon to Rock

Cinematic-Essays, 2025
Transtectonics

Transtectonics

Cinematic-Essays, 2025
Wooden Bubble

Wooden Bubble

Cinematic-Essays, 2025

Architecture as Planetary Abstraction

Author: Cristina Parreño Alonso Routledge. Pedagogical Experiments in Architecture for a Changing Climate
Ghost of Stone

Ghost of Stone

Cinematic-Essays, 2025
Plyglass

Plyglass

Cinematic-Essays, 2025
Rock in Full Metal Jacket

Rock in Full Metal Jacket

Cinematic-Essays, 2025

The Deep Time Project on Climate Change

ACSA/EAAE Conference: Design (in)Action, 2021
Volcanic Infraestructures

Volcanic Infraestructures

Cinematic-Essays, 2025
Magma Matter

Magma Matter

Cinematic-Essays, 2025

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