The King James Version of the Bible (KJV) is a foundation stone of the English language. The KJV was composed as a collective project and written to be spoken. Sixty-Six Books has been created; in the spirit of the original; in the same way. Pulpit to print; stage to page; mediated through many forms oral and written this is a work that has travelled to every continent of the globe. It has been shared as a melodic instrument of inspiration; illumination and mutual understanding; and it has also been wielded as a tool of colonial oppression.Contributors to Sixty-Six Books include: Kwame Kwei-Armah; Neil Bartlett; Caroline Bird; Yemisi Blake; Billy Bragg; Moira Buffini; Sam Burns; Suhayla El-Bushra; Anne Carson; Matt Charman; Brian Chikwava; Elinor Cook; Laura Dockrill; Carol Ann Duffy; Stella Duffy; David Edgar; Helen Edmundson; David Eldridge; Adam Foulds; Naomi Foyle; Salena Godden; Chris Goode; James Graham; Trevor Griffiths; Suheir Hammad; Nathalie Handal; Nancy Harris; Daisy Hasan; DC Jackson; Jackie Kay; Luke Kennard; Maha Khan Philips; Deirdre Kinahan; Nancy Kricorian; Neil LaBute; Nick Laird; Mandla Langa; Toby Litt; Lachlan Mackinnon; Marks Gran; Ian McHugh; Anne Michaels; Helen Mort; Kate Mosse; Andrew Motion; Paul Muldoon; Molly Naylor; Nick Payne; Wena Poon; Anya Reiss; Tim Rice; Michael Rosen; Amy Rosenthal; Kamila Shamsie; Owen Sheers; Christopher Shinn; Wole Soyinka; Jack Thorne; Enda Walsh; Zukiswa Wanner; Steve Waters; Rowan Williams; Jeanette Winterson; Anthony Weigh; Tom Wells and Roy Williams.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. The Autopoiesis of Architecture is a spectacular intellectual achievement. ...By Daniela GhertoviciThe Autopoiesis of Architecture is a spectacular intellectual achievement. and a very rare elaboration of a systematic. comprehensive. and unified theory for contemporary architecture. The writing is remarkably clear and accessible. while at the same time elegantly complex and distinctly articulate. This is a highly instrumental work that is immediately actionable for architects and designers in both analytical and generative contexts. cohering. connecting and ordering a huge network of complex discursive. professional and academic threads. It leaves no stone unturned. and is equally inspiring for seasoned professionals as it is for emerging practitioners and young students. The first volume is a comprehensive discourse analysis that constructs a rigorous. systematic framework for productive discursive differentiation. debate and evolution. The second volume systematically elaborates a comprehensive new agenda for architecture. culminating in a lucid reflection/projection on Parametricism. the contemporary style of architecture that emerged globally and evolved exponentially since the mid-1990s. across professional practices. design research collaboratives and schools worldwide. in response to the emergence of a global. functionally differentiated post-Fordist network society in the crisis and eventual collapse of Modernism in the late 1970s. Perhaps the most radical aspect of this treatise is its stark contrast to the exponential proliferation of fragmentary. multivalent. transdisciplinary and partial theories reverberating throughout the communications of architecture. The dearth of systematic and comprehensive contemporary architecture discourse addressing the principles. values and heuristics that inform design innovation today has surrounded the release of this treatise in a flurry of debate. and catalyzed a high level of engaged and polarized public architecture discourse. After two decades of disruptive innovations that have continuously converged on the territory of architecture discourse. practice. academia from cultural. cybernetic. economic. scientific. and political directions. this cohering and unifying architecture treatise is long overdue!
