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Rem koolhaas is the real diva in the final installment of our summer series, curbeds architecture critic rereads all 1,344 pages of the dutch architects s,m,l,xl by alexandra lange. Conceived by rem koolhaas author of delirious new york and bruce mau designer of zone as a freefall in the space of the typographic imagination, the book s title, small, medium, large, extralarge, is also its framework. Rem koolhaas lecture coinciding with the publication of his new book content and his receiving the gold medal at riba. In 1995, his book s,m,l,xl summarized the work of oma in a novel about architecture. May 01, 2003 this book takes place at the cusp of the 20th and 21st centuries, in the pre and postseptember 11th world. Aug 11, 2011 discover book depositorys huge selection of rem koolhaas books online. 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. This book is a compendium, a glossy cabinet of idea, observation, wit from rem and his associates. Content by rem koolhaas this book takes place at the cusp of the 20th and 21st centuries, in the pre and postseptember 11th world. A kind of architect, a film by markus heidingsfelder and min tesch, examines the consequences of this discursive split as it applies to the work of a single firm, the office for metropolitan architecture, and its principal, rem koolhaas. Taschen, the publisher of content, has been churning out giant tomes.
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