Our ever-fasting-moving culture stretches thin the separation between past, present and future, making it more tenuous, and more illegible. And architects, who used to lean towards permanence and durability, are now incorporating into their value system the term temporary, along with novelty, young, and recent. How should we position ourselves in a time when the thirst for the new becomes, as Javier Marias says "contempt for what exists, and fascination with what does not exist"? Demolitions, conversions, remains - architecture rejects a static fate; those phenomena record what has been, but also reflect what is in being now.