Grace and Gravity

"[Grace and Gravity] raises the discussions on the digital turn in architecture out of its largely administrative, historiographical condition to a spiritual, daringly ambitious, quick and genuinely exciting, and also ethical new level, that gives us a taste of how the digital turn’s somewhat narcissistic preoccupation with the production of ""novelty"" might be overcome. * Theory, Culture & Society * As he ranges from Minoan bull-leaping imagery to Beatles lyrics and back again, via Thomas Aquinas, Martin Heidegger, and St Paul, there is a relentless breathlessness to the text. This is part of its joy … This is a book in which there is much (as Spuybroek's own responses to Italian architecture would have it) 'blossom, flourishing, efflorescence, flowering'. * Art & Christianity * Lars Spuybroek is one of the freshest and most original voices in our contemporary intellectual world. Grace and Gravity is a truly exceptional and quite extraordinary book. The reader comes away from encountering it with their minds instructed and their lives enriched. It is so much more than a merely ‘academic’ book and it can be appreciated on many levels. It is a book to savour and one can only be grateful for such a work. * Keith Ansell-Pearson, University of Warwick, UK * ""In comparison to his earlier work, Grace and Gravity is both more sweeping and more intimate ... An ambitious volume."" * Aesthetic Investigations * Natura semper facit saltus, nature always makes leaps. In this impressively erudite book, Lars Spuybroek shows that these leaps are not across sheer void, but a ‘thin, ghostlike film’ that does not quite belong either to the parts or wholes of things. Against the recent dogmas of continuity and immanence, he invites us to a new understanding of his key term, grace. * Graham Harman, SCI-Arc, USA * Throughout Grace and Gravity Spuybroek displays a gift for synthesizing complex ideas in ways that do not reduce or deny their difficulties but rather behold them in simultaneity ... [This] is a trip eminently worth taking while listening to the workings of his mind. * Log (52) * Spuybroek wrote a beautiful book. Thanks to this book I can understand architecture better. * Helden van de Geest (Bloomsbury Translation) *"