[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.

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