Ralph S. Steenblik is best known as a designer, curator, and thinker. In Convergence: Work For a New Time, Steenblik presents a selection of outstanding and visionary work exploring interactive, parametric, and dynamic architecture. Through this exploration, he blurs the line between architecture and user experience (UX). This work contains architectural projects, photos and sketches, as well as brief critical essays on contemporary architecture and society. The projects and articles display a rare passion and creativity, as well as a refreshing genuinity. It is clear that these works matter to the author/designer. Further, Steenblik both strengthens his ideas and articulates his process using the important method, cinematics. Many projects are marked by a series of frames, effectively expressing a narrative. This method also highlights the crucial connection between film and architecture. Readers should also notice Steenblik's emphasis on the 21st Century topics: choreography, intelligent displacement, and synchronized simultaneity. All in all, Convergence is a refreshing overture on contemporary and progressive architecture. -Rachel Hunt, Philosophy Librarian, CGU