S M L XL: Second EditionRem Koolhaas, Bruce Mau
Gebundene Ausgabe
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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