Essays on Technology and Design Culture

Sanford Kwinter

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.

¨Far from Equilibrium is one of those rare works, an insider’s critique.¨  ARTFORUM

¨In 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

¨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

¨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

"Far from Equilibrium is an invaluable reminder of what avant-gardism is."  --Architect's Newspaper

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