Article On time within an architectural community Jan Smitheram Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Akari Nakai Kidd Deakin University, Australia Abstract The relation between time and architecture is well established and thoroughly explored in architectural discourse. Despite this, examination of social time has been lacking. This paper draws on a survey of 114 architects, academics and students who responded to general questions about practice and occupational wellbeing. A finding of this study was the diverse attachments that different groups in the architectural community have to the temporal norms and infra- structures of work and of studio. Based on this study, the paper demonstrates the heterogeneity that exists in architecture and how its temporal norms are negotiated. It concludes that exposing the heterogeneity of temporal experi- ence across a discipline reminds us that the norms of time are negotiated. Moreover, the temporal experience of the everyday transcends the notion that architects passively ascribe to long-hours work culture. Keywords Time, architects, academics, students, community Introduction Architecture is understood historically as beyond time, providing reassur- ance that the built environment is reliable and stable, rather than collapsing Corresponding author: Jan Smitheram, 139 Vivian Street, Te Aro Campus, Wellington, New Zealand. Email: jan.smitheram@vuw.ac.nz Time & Society 0(0) 1–23 ! The Author(s) 2019 Article reuse guidelines: sagepub.com/journals-permissions DOI: 10.1177/0961463X18820737 journals.sagepub.com/home/tas