Far from equilibrium

Sanford Kwinter - Far from equilibrium - Essays on technology and design culture.

Actar, 2008, innbundet med smussomslag, 196 sider.

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Sanford Kwinter ponders the complex encounters between technology, culture, and architecture. Critical essays offer an extended meditation on infrastructure, war, computation, mechanical and material intelligence, and other multivariate facets of modernity. Far-reaching in scope, Far from Equilibrium amounts to a performance in writing of what Kwinter describes as radical anamnesis: the imagination's escape from the sterile logic of what is. Compiling over a decade of architectural and critical writings, many published here for the first time, Far From Equilibrium is essential reading for anyone interested in the state of architecture and criticism today. A primer for (re)thinking design in the 21st century.

Review

A great point of departure if you re willing to re-think design in the new millenium. --LODOWN MagazineFar from Equilibrium is one of those rare works, an insider s critique. --ArtforumIn a distinctly Kwinter-esque voice of commentary, reflection and critique, Far From Equilibrium delivers us ever closer to the possibility of a renewal of thought relating to practices and issues architectural. --Architectural Review.-- Its seductive appearance aside, I was struck by how formative Kwinter's work has been in my thinking and in architecture culture as a whole over the last two decades. It's a must-buy. --Kazys Varnelis

Sanford Kwinter is among the most influential architectural theorists of his generation...blasting theoretically informed polemic at a post-industrial world... Far From Equilibrium is an undeniably bracing and enlivening volume. --Icon Magazine

A great point of departure if you re willing to re-think design in the new millenium. --LODOWN Magazine

About the Author

Sanford Kwinter is a New York-based writer. He teaches design at the School of Architecture, Rice University.