Multiplicity

Reviews / Votes

"This volume directly addresses the issues that most interest architecture readers today, namely environmental sustainability and racial and social justice, and taken together these essays emphasize the importance of continuing critical thought and reflection to better understand them. The collection significantly advances the multiplicity of voices in an essential way." - Paul Emmons, associate dean for graduate studies at the Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center, Virginia Tech

"I believe this important book takes architectural discourse well beyond the old debate and disparity between prescription and invention and beyond the challenging of disciplinary boundaries." - Teresa Stoppani, author of Unorthodox Ways to Think the City: Representations, Constructions, Dynamics

"As an idea, a design, a construction process, a cultural object and an economic investment, architecture is intrinsically multiple. Developments such as the advent of digital technology, new constraints and opportunities arising from the environmental crisis, and the diversification of the architectural profession, have led to a discipline that seems to have multiplied to the point of appearing as a kaleidoscopic reality. Instead of seeing this multiplicity as a weakening, the authors of this rich and rigorous book propose to see it as the beginning of a recentering. After all, as one of the contributors reminds us, the ancient Greeks saw multiplicity as a foundational principle, the promise of a harmonious blossoming. Multiplicity thus offers an essential insight into architecture under its various guises." - Antoine Picon, author of Digital Culture in Architecture: An Introduction for the Design Professions