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.
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Award-winning Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas is the founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) and has become one of the most intriguing and exciting architectural thinkers of our time. This small-scale, affordable paperback presents a selection of texts from a seminar series conducted by Koolhaas, as well as an essay by the architect discussing three of OMA's large-scale projects. Addressing questions of urbanism and architecture in Europe, Asia, and the United States, these texts ultimately illuminate in a concise manner OMA's long-term mission and ideals.
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Distills rather than inflates the architect's thoughts .... offers a way to pierce the hype surrounding its subject. Brad Weiners, Wired
For those with neither the finance nor the physique for (yes) Rem Koolhaas's monster S,M,L,XL, help is at hand. Architects' Journal --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
For those with neither the finance nor the physique for (yes) Rem Koolhaas's monster S,M,L,XL, help is at hand. Architects' Journal --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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Fifteen years after it was first published, this remains a seminal work regarding contemporary architecture .. in particular the problem, in large metropolitan projects, of accommodating both the client and the site without simply piling up glass boxes.
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An interesting apoach to Koolhaas pedagogy,
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This book results in a very interesting overview about the problems of the big-scale in the hybrid buildings, with the privilege of been told in the first person by one of the most important builder of the contemporany city.
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- All That Is Solid Melts into Air: The Experience of Modernity by Marshall Berman on page 54
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