School of Architecture faculty member Eunjeong Seong, along with Michael Bell, have published 8 Minutes, 20 Seconds: Housing After Banking, Encrypting the Sun (Actar, 2025).
Energy generated by nuclear fusion of the Sun reaches the surface of the Earth in 8 minutes and 20 seconds. 8 Minutes, 20 Seconds imagines an architecture based on renewable energy, caching forms of energy that are essentially inexhaustible and persistent, and virtually non-denumerable in quantity. It anticipates a post-scarcity era enabled and reorganized by a new form of housing that serves as an arbiter of post-sustainability human settlements.
Proposing a new form of housing only achievable through advanced manufacturing, we ask: “what if what was a housing asset becomes a new form of energy asset whose downstream by-product is shelter?”
