Far from Equilibrium: Essays on Technology and Design Culture

The newest book by Sanford Kwinter, "Far From Equilibrium" 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. With far-reaching scope and affiliative method, "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. This title is a primer for (re)thinking design in the 21st century. * Sanford Kwinter is one of today s most provocative and well-known architectural writers. A New York-based writer, Kwinter teaches design at the School of Architecture, Rice University. * This is the long-awaited follow up to Kwinter s Architectures of Time (MIT Press) * Essential for anyone interested in architectural theory and criticism.