Fragments and Coherence: Essays and Works of Architecture by Peter Lynch

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A exhaustive survey of thirty years of Peter Lynch's architecture

An in-depth exploration of Peter Lynch's architecture spanning three decades of practice, teaching, and writing. Fragments and Coherence is also an inquiry into a compositional approach that the author calls "holding together," practiced in many creative disciplines. Beethoven's Late Quartets, T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land, Marcel Duchamp's "Large Glass," Hadrian's Villa, the Humble Administrator's Garden, Scarpa's Brion Vega Cemetery, and Peter Lynch's own Timescape Garden are all examples. In each case the work's overall structure arises from the holding-together of heterogeneous parts. The book proposes a relationship between this way of making things and philosopher Giorgio Agamben's notion of singularity. Works made up of disparate, disjunct elements, reconciled with each other according to their natures, are often singular- examples of themselves alone, not encompassed by any category or rule.

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Peter Lynch is an architect and researcher at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm. He headed the graduate Architecture Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art from 1996-2005 and has taught at Harvard, Columbia, Rhode Island School of Design, City College of New York, Parsons School of Design, Dalhousie, Penn State, and KTH. He received the Rome Prize in 2004. Current research projects include "Timescape Garden," an urban biodiversity reserve in Norrkping Sweden, and "DIT IDP," prefabricated, energy-efficient houses self-built by internally displaced persons in Ukraine.