Rem Koolhaas

Describes the effect of the overcrowding of Manhattan on the development of New York's architecture, and of the latter on the culture of the city, and argues that they are the results of a deliberate, if unexpressed, program

A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan

Delirious New York

Bruce Mau

Bruce Man

S, M, L, XL (Evergreen Series)

Hans Ulrich Obrist

Project Japan: Metabolism Talks...

Office for Metropolitan Architecture

Essays, projekter, dagbøger, rejseberetninger og eventyrfortællinger fra tyve års virksomhed i Office for Metropolitan Architecture, ordnet som en encyklopædi

Small, Medium, Large, Extra-large

Junkspace. Per un ripensamento radicale dello spazio urbano

In its mood and subject matter, Content reflects recent shifts in geo-politics, particularly since 9-11. The book's content follows Koolhaas's expanding interests, mixing architecture with politics, history, technology, and sociology. Topics are arranged according to geography.

Content

Hal Foster

Junkspace first appeared in the Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping (2001), a vast compendium of text, images, and data concerning the consumerist transformation of city and suburb from the first department store to the latest mega mall. The architect Rem Koolhaas itemized in delirious detail how our cities are being overwhelmed. His celebrated jeremiad is updated here and twinned with Running Room, a fresh response from the cultural critic Hal Foster. Junkspace describes the bleak and featureless world of capitalism, while Running Room seeks to find a space within the junk in which the individual might still exist.

Junkspace with Running Room

Stefano Boeri

Sanford Kwinter

Nadia Tazi

multiplicity Milano

Francine Fort

Daniela Fabricius

Mutations

James Westcott

佳代子·太田

Metabolism was a movement launched in Japan that took inspiration for buildings and cities from biological systems. With interviews and commentary and hundreds of images, Project Japan unearths a history that casts new light on the key issues that both enervate and motivate architecture today.

Metabolism Talks

Project Japan

Bigness or the problem of large. Generic city. Junkspace.

More than two thousand illustrations, many in color highlight an intriguing overview of Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas's work, including his building designs, sketches, and shrewd commentary on modern art, architecture, and social conditions, in a new, low-priced edition of a critically acclaimed work.

S, M, L, XL

Deliryczny Nowy Jork

Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi

trasparenze metropolitane

Este livro reúne três textos sobre a cidade que continuam a linha seguida por Nova York delirante (1978), o já clássico manifesto retroactivo de Manhattan, que oferece uma visão lúcida das forças ingovernáveis que regem o espaço da cidade contemporânea. O texto 'Grandeza, ou o problema do grande' constitui uma elaboração teórica sobre a arquitectura, abordada a partir do problema da dimensão dos objectos na cidade; 'A cidade genérica' reflecte sobre a importância dos grandes fenómenos vinculados ao desenvolvimento global das sociedades ocidentais; e 'Espaço-lixo' volta a explorar a natureza do espaço que essa mesma cidade genérica gerou.

Três textos sobre a cidade

un manifesto retroattivo per Manhattan

Sze Tsung Leong

Chuihua Judy Chung

Jeffrey Inaba

SHOPPING is arguably the last remaining form of public activity. Through a battery of increasingly predatory forms, shopping has infiltrated, colonized, and even replaced, almost every aspect of urban life. Town centers, suburbs, streets, and now airports, train stations, museums, hospitals, schools, the Internet, and the military are shaped by the mechanisms and spaces of shopping. The voracity by which shopping pursues the public has, in effect, made it one of the principal-if only-modes by which we experience the city. The Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping explores the spaces, people, techniques, ideologies, and inventions by which shopping has so dramatically refashioned the city. Perhaps the beginning of the twenty-first century will be remembered as the point where the urban could no longer be understood without shopping. The PROJECT ON THE CITY, formerly known as "The Project for What Used to be the City," is an ongoing research effort that examines the effects of modernization on the urban condition. Each year the Project on the City investigates a specific urban region or a general urban condition undergoing virulent change. It tries to capture and decipher ongoing mutations in order to develop a new conceptual framework and vocabulary for phenomena that can no longer be described within the traditional categories of architecture, landscape, and urban planning. The first project, Great Leap Forward, focuses on the new forms and speeds of urbanization in the Pearl River Delta, China. The second project investigates the impact of shopping on the city. The third project explores the urban condition of Lagos, Nigeria. The fourth project treats the invention and expansion of the "systematic" Roman city as an early version of modernization and a prototype for the current process of globalization.

Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping

Jennifer Sigler

Hans Werlemann

Overzicht van uitgevoerd werk en ontwerpen van Rem Koolhaas (1944) en zijn architectenbureau OMA.

Aurora Cuito

Francisco Asensio Cerver

Rem Koolhaas (Rotterdam,1944) studied architecture at the AA in London--where he went on to become a lecturer--and at the IAUS in New York, during Peter Eisenman's time there. Koolhaas has always been connected with the theory of architecture, as lecturer at the innovative AA, as a speaker, and with his published work: Delirious New York, a retrospective manifesto for Manhattan (1978) and the recent S, M, L, XL (1995). In 1972 Koolhaas set up the OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture), whose name clearly expresses the planning intentions of the team, comprising Koolhaas, Elia and Zoe Zenghelis, and Madelon Vriessendorp.

Rem Koolhaas/OMA

Roberto Gargiani

This first critical monograph places the work of Rem Koolhaas and OMA in a cultural context that allows the reader to better understand the creative process of modern architecture, retracing the career of Rem Koolhaas in chronological and thematic order.

The Construction of Merveilles

Rice University. School of Architecture

Explaining architecture to students requires a clarity and economy of expression that is not always associated with architects; perhaps this explains the popularity of our Conversations with Students series, which are succinct, informal introductions to the works of the world's greatest architects.

Bill Craig

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