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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.
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1350020842, 1350020850, 9781350020849, 9781350020856, 1350020826, 1350020834, 9781350020825, 9781350020832
Grace and Gravity: Architectures of the Figure 1st Edition is written by Lars Spuybroek and published by Bloomsbury Visual Arts. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Grace and Gravity are 9781350020825, 1350020826 and the print ISBNs are 9781350020849, 1350020842. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include 1350020842, 1350020850, 9781350020849, 9781350020856, 1350020826, 1350020834, 9781350020825, 9781350020832.
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