Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for ManhattanMonacelli Press, 1 déc. 1997 - 320 pages Since its original publication in 1978, Delirious New York has attained mythic status. Back in print in a newly designed edition, this influential cultural, architectural, and social history of New York is even more popular, selling out its first printing on publication. Rem Koolhaas's celebration and analysis of New York depicts the city as a metaphor for the incredible variety of human behavior. At the end of the nineteenth century, population, information, and technology explosions made Manhattan a laboratory for the invention and testing of a metropolitan lifestyle -- "the culture of congestion" -- and its architecture. "Manhattan," he writes, "is the 20th century's Rosetta Stone . . . occupied by architectural mutations (Central Park, the Skyscraper), utopian fragments (Rockefeller Center, the U.N. Building), and irrational phenomena (Radio City Music Hall)." Koolhaas interprets and reinterprets the dynamic relationship between architecture and culture in a number of telling episodes of New York's history, including the imposition of the Manhattan grid, the creation of Coney Island, and the development of the skyscraper. Delirious New York is also packed with intriguing and fun facts and illustrated with witty watercolors and quirky archival drawings, photographs, postcards, and maps. The spirit of this visionary investigation of Manhattan equals the energy of the city itself. |
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... building in the world , " it is the first icon . of the double life of utopia . • At 40 West 40th Street the World Tower Building repeats its site 30 times , " one of the highest buildings on so small a plot . " 4 As an image , it is ...
... building in the world , " it is the first icon . of the double life of utopia . • At 40 West 40th Street the World Tower Building repeats its site 30 times , " one of the highest buildings on so small a plot . " 4 As an image , it is ...
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... building of the mutant kind strives to be " a City within a City . " This truculent ambition makes the Metropolis a collection of architectural city - states , all potentially at war with each other . MODEL By 1910 the process of ...
... building of the mutant kind strives to be " a City within a City . " This truculent ambition makes the Metropolis a collection of architectural city - states , all potentially at war with each other . MODEL By 1910 the process of ...
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... Building has so few openings that faithfulness to its design now condemns its designer to temporary blindness . The close fit of head- and Skyscraper - dress on Ely Jacques Kahn reflects the nature of his buildings : never straining for ...
... Building has so few openings that faithfulness to its design now condemns its designer to temporary blindness . The close fit of head- and Skyscraper - dress on Ely Jacques Kahn reflects the nature of his buildings : never straining for ...
Table des matières
Introduction | 9 |
Prehistory | 13 |
The Technology of the Fantastic | 29 |
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