Binding: Hardcover
EAN: 9783822877432
ISBN: 3822877433
Label: Taschen GmbH
Manufacturer: Taschen GmbH
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 1344
Publication Date: 1998-01-30
Publisher: Taschen GmbH
Studio: Taschen GmbH

Originally published to great critical acclaim in 1966, this text combines a selection of design works produced by the Dutch firm, Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.) and its founder, Rem Koolhaas.
This extraordinary, massive, and mind-boggling 1,300-page book combines essays, manifestos, diaries, fairy tales, travelogues, a cycle of meditations on the contemporary city--and complex illustration--with work produced by Koolhaas' Office for Metropolitan Architecture over the past twenty years. This almost overwhelming accumulation of words and images illuminates the condition of architecture today--its splendors and miseries--exploring and revealing the corrosive effects of politics, context, the economy, and globalization. In some ways, this is the "Medium is the Message" of 1990s architectural discourse: guaranteed to be hugely influential in the coming decades, but grossly misunderstood by those who have not read it. The core arguments it makes about metropolitan architecture--accepting complexity and lack of centralized control--are similar to those of Kevin Kelly's Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World. Very highly recommended.

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Summary: urbanism clasics
Comment: I am grateful and happy to have in my presence one of the greatest urbanism clasic books of 20th century. Remarkable book. I learn a lot! Rem is outstanding and extraordinary.

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Summary: not gotten the book yet
Comment: please, i have not gotten my book yet. give me an information about it. Glenda

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Summary: "Don't judge a book by its cover" by Lira Luis, AIA, RIBA, LEED-AP
Comment: I received a copy of this book as a christmas gift. As an architect, I tell you the guy who gave it to me scored some major brownie points from me that holiday.

Rem Koolhaas defies tradition both in his architecture and his literature. He is foremost a journalist before fully shifting gears to architecture. In this book, he engages the reader by making you realize that while an immediate impression of intimidation engulfs you at first glance of its sheer density, once you start flipping the pages, you realize that you don't have to follow any order in reading it. There are no rules or boundaries on how you read the book: you can flip, you can toss, you can flicker, and in each and every method you will find amusement with the visual eye candy the images, graphics, and text, this book gives you. Nice addition to any architecture book collection/library/coffee table.

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Summary: Browse someone else's copy
Comment: An acquaintance had a copy of this so I looked through it during a dinner party. Blah. Bah! It's full of facetious, egotistical monoliths (from the edifices to the book itself) that offer nothing but themselves to the rest of the urban experience. Le Corbusier of the late 20th century. Gawd, I hope Koolhaas doesn't take that as a compliment.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Uma boa aquisição!
Comment: Realmente atendeu as expectativas. Um belíssimo livro em um bom preço e no prazo de entrega informado.

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