This article examines discourses of time and temporality in architectural design and construction in India’s National Capital Region (NCR). Working with data gathered from fifteen months of ethnographic research in the construction industry in NCR between 2012 and 2013, the article argues that intermingled discourses of past, present, and future in construction serve to perpetuate labour hierarchies and accumulation in design. It calls for architects and designers to critically analyse the socio-economic and political workings of their own production chains, and to pay attention to the nuances through which power operates in the profession.

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印度设计和建筑的劳动和时间性

本文探讨了印度国家首都地区 (NCR) 建筑设计和施工中关于时间和时间性的论述。本文使用从 2012 年至 2013 年间在 NCR 建筑行业进行的 15 个月的民族志研究收集的数据，认为建筑中过去、现在和未来的混合话语有助于使劳动等级制度和设计积累永久化。它要求建筑师和设计师批判性地分析他们自己生产链的社会经济和政治运作，并注意权力在专业中运作的细微差别。