Download or read book A Public Architecture to Encourage Plurality written by Charles Freeman and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A speculative design illustrates an architecture for plurality. The design rests upon George Baird's proposal that a plurality consists of individuals occupying a range of publicness from the collective distraction described by Walter Benjamin to the full engagement of Hannah Arendt's public realm. To encourage this range of publicness, the design gathers a diversity of public rooms- indoor, outdoor, and liminal- in order to bring many different kinds of people together. Occupants are able to move through, beside, and between the gathered rooms in a system of overlapping thresholds. Each person would encounter others within a syncopation of distraction and focus, thresholds and public gatherings.