Grace and gravity : architectures of the figure / Lars Spuybroek.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spuybroek, Lars, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Philosophy.

Architecture.

Quality of life.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

"How do we live well? The first sentence of Grace and Gravity raises the fundamental question that constantly occupies our minds-and of all those who lived before us. Paradoxically, the impossibility of answering this question opens up the very room needed to find ways of living well. It is the gap where all disciplines fall short, where architecture does not fit its inhabitants, where economy is not based on shortage, where religion cannot be explained by its followers, and where technology works far beyond its own principles. According to Lars Spuybroek, the prize-winning former architect, this marks the point where the ?paradoxical machine? of grace reveals its powers, a point where we ?cannot say if we are moving or being moved?. Following the trail of grace leads him to a new form of analysis that transcends the age-old opposition between appearances and technology. Linking up a dazzling and often delightful variety of sources-monkeys, paintings, lamp posts, octopuses, tattoos, bleeding fingers, rose windows, robots, smart phones, spirits, saints, and fossils-with profound meditations on living, death, consciousness, and existence, Grace and Gravity offers an eye-opening provocation to a wide range of art historians, architects, theologians, anthropologists, artists, media theorists and philosophers."-- Provided by publisher.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781350020832

OCLC:

1226489619

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.