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

Join us for the book launch of Peter Lynch, Fragments and Coherence: Essays and Works of Architecture

Fragments and Coherence is an inquiry into one way of composing works of architecture, literature, art, and music: “holding together.” Certain architects, poets, painters, and composers gather forms, marks, characters, words, or phrases, the way a bowerbird collects bright objects; probe their relationships, as a detective considers bits of evidence; and compose them according to their qualities, as a chef prepares a banquet. Being a bowerbird, a detective, and a chef: this is the mind of holding together.

The book presents twenty held-together works from Peter Lynch’s architecture practice, ranging from highly detailed structures to urban planning proposals. Essays analyse key examples of held-together works of architecture, literature, art, and music.

- Peter Lynch is Principal of Building Culture PLA, a researcher and former Guest Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology and former Architect-in-Residence at Cranbrook Academy of Art.

- Yael Hameiri Sainsaux, editor of Fragments and Coherence, is an architect and scholar engaging critical theory, comparative literature, and phenomenology.

- Elizabeth B. Hatz, AA Diploma RIBA II, Associate Professor at the University of Limerick, is an architect, educator, curator, and writer based in Stockholm.

- Mark Dorrian holds the Forbes Chair in Architecture at the University of Edinburgh, is Co-Director of Metis and Editor-in-Chief of Drawing Matter Journal.

We are delighted to welcome Peter Lynch and Yael Hameiri Sainsaux and their guests to the Architectural Association Bookshop to celebrate the launch of their new publication.

The book will be sold at the special price of £30 (RRP)