Small, Medium, Large, Extra-large: Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rem Koolhaas, and Bruce Mau, Partie 3Monacelli Press, 1995 - 1344 pages S, M, L, XL presents a selection of the remarkable visionary design work produced by the Dutch firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.) and its acclaimed founder, Rem Koolhaas, in its first twenty years, along with a variety of insightful, often poetic writings. The inventive collaboration between Koolhaas and designer Bruce Mau is a graphic overture that weaves together architectural projects, photos and sketches, diary excerpts, personal travelogues, fairy tales, and fables, as well as critical essays on contemporary architecture and society. The book's title is also its framework: projects and essays are arranged according to scale. While Small and Medium address issues ranging from the domestic to the public, Large focuses on what Koolhaas calls "the architecture of Bigness." Extra-Large features projects at the urban scale, along with the important essay "What Ever Happened to Urbanism?" and other studies of the contemporary city. Running throughout the book is a "dictionary" of an adventurous new Koolhaasian language -- definitions, commentaries, and quotes from hundreds of literary, cultural, artistic, and architectural sources. |
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... Strip is like a runway , a landing strip for the new architecture of collective monuments . Two walls enclose and protect this zone to retain its integrity and to prevent any contami- nation of its surface by the cancerous organ- ism ...
... Strip is like a runway , a landing strip for the new architecture of collective monuments . Two walls enclose and protect this zone to retain its integrity and to prevent any contami- nation of its surface by the cancerous organ- ism ...
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... Strip : they propose architectural refinements , extensions , strategies . Excited groups elaborate proposals in special rooms , while others continuously modify the model . The most contradictory pro- grams fuse without compromise ...
... Strip : they propose architectural refinements , extensions , strategies . Excited groups elaborate proposals in special rooms , while others continuously modify the model . The most contradictory pro- grams fuse without compromise ...
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... Strip This is the frontline of the architectural war- fare waged on the old London . Here , the mer- ciless progress of the Strip performs a daily miracle ; the corrective rage of the architecture is at its most intense . In a ...
... Strip This is the frontline of the architectural war- fare waged on the old London . Here , the mer- ciless progress of the Strip performs a daily miracle ; the corrective rage of the architecture is at its most intense . In a ...
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