The Architecture of Slowness
A generation of designers is rejecting optimization culture and building spaces that invite lingering. What does it mean to design for time?
Sofía Rincón·11 min
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Sofía Rincón
Architecture critic and urban theorist — London / Bogotá
Sofía Rincón is an architecture critic and urban theorist whose work examines how built environments shape the inner lives of those who inhabit them. She teaches at the Architectural Association in London and is the author of The Slow Room (2024). She lives between London and Bogotá.
2 Articles by Sofía
Making Things with Your Hands
On the revival of craft — pottery, bookbinding, woodworking — and what it means to make something slow in a fast world.
Sofía Rincón·8 min