Rem Koolhaas: Oma (Archipockets) (Hardcover)

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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. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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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.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 80 pages
• Publisher: Te Neues Publishing Company (October 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 3823855824
• ISBN-13: 978-3823855828
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #490,784 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An interesting apoach to Koolhaas pedagogy, June 19, 1999

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This review is from: Rem Koolhaas: Conversations with Students (Architecture at Rice, 30) (Paperback)

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.