Architecture Against ArchitectureArchitecture, as we know it, is in crisis. The authority of architects is crumbling, their methods no longer tenable. In a highly critical introspection, architect and writer Reinier de Graaf explores the tough choices ahead and the course of action that must follow. Architecture Against Architecture demands we rethink both how and why we build. With wit and insight, De Graaf lays out the future of the profession, challenging readers to question the

and who want to understand it anew

stubbornness and fear

Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world

and complete with family photos

by the bestselling author of The Name of the Rose — now published in English for the first time

is a public intellectual and founder of the People’s Justice Party

thus eliminating any of its truly radical and emancipatory possibilities

from an early talk given as a teenager graduating high school to his acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize

A Sunny Place for Shady People showcases Enriquez’s unique blend of the literary and the horrific

but also because his writings did not require that the reader be well read in technical philosophy

Each paradox explored in this book illuminates a particular dimension of these emerging technologies while prompting us to reevaluate our most common preconceptions about them

separated from his family for years at a time