Publisher: Pacific

"I am the thing that doesn't fit" appears at the very opening of 'Joyspace', architect Adam Rolston's vibrant and incisive manifesto on the practice to which he has devoted his life. A chronicle of nearly four decades of singular creative vision, in which a brief history of modern architecture unfolds and is then critiqued, Joyspace introduces the reader to new definitions of art and value in the built environment. An act of personal and intellectual self-definition — drawing on references as diverse as Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's Futurist Manifesto, ACT UP, and Rutger Hauer's chilling monologue 'Tears in the Rain' from Blade Runner — Rolston's 'Joyspace' is a transformative force capable of shaping a new interconnected global aesthetic that resists the limits of conventional design, where nothing fits neatly and everyone has a place.

The Pacific Design series explores design as an act of problem-solving and alternative thinking. Drawing on contributions from some of today's most visionary thinkers across art, architecture, photography and creative writing, the series positions design as a gesture of hope — the belief that if we can imagine another way forward, then we can create a better one.