Six canonical projects by Rem Koolhaas : essays on the history of ideas
Dutch architect, architectural theorist and urban thinker Rem Koolhaas (born 1944) has been a protagonist of the international architectural avant-garde since the 1970s; his numerous worldwide awards include the Pritzker Prize in 2000 for his lifetime achievement. Through a series of essays, this bo...
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- Intro -- Title Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Biographical Notes -- 1. Wall: Exodus, or the Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture, London 1972 -- The Wall as a Means of Division, Exclusion, and Difference -- Good Half and Bad Half of the City: Exodus, or The Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture -- Decision-Making and the Authority of the Plan -- Somatology and the Fictitious Entity of the Prison -- Deterministic Form and Flexibility -- Delimiting the World and Enabling Difference -- Taking Place and the Sacred Nature of City Walls -- The Ideal City and Other Models of Utopian Life -- The Closed and the Open Society as Ideal Worlds -- Nova Insula Utopia, or The Nowhere Place -- Urban Vacancy and the Disappearance of Public Space -- Reinventing Utopia, or Daily Life Beyond Necessity -- Utopia Zero Degree, or Freedom Beyond Planning -- The Manhattan Skyscraper as Utopia Zero Degree -- The City as Script and Social Condenser -- Amplifying the Program within Structures of Control -- The Wall as a Means of Freedom Beyond Planning -- 2. Void: Ville Nouvelle Melun-Sénart, Paris 1987 -- Failed Agencies of Modern Urbanism -- Planning Makes No Difference -- Chaos and Nothingness: Ville Nouvelle Melun-Sénart -- Metropolis and Disorder, or The City Without Qualities -- Void and Future Development -- The Watertight Formula of the Modern City -- Tabula Rasa and Prospective Preservation -- The Grid as Field of Projection -- Void as Environment of Control and Choice -- Infrastructure and Kit-of-Parts Architecture -- Experiments of the Non-Plan and the Unhouse -- The City as Social Work of Art -- The Armature of Genericity -- Critical Theory and the Architect's Status -- The End of the Dialectic City -- The Operating System of the Roma Quadrata -- City Planning and Bricolage Technique -- 3. Montage: Maison à Bordeaux, France 1994-1998
- The Elevator as a Diagram of Discontinuity -- The Escalator as a Diagram of Continuity and Circulation -- Shopping and the Public Sphere -- Technological Determinism and the Public Sphere -- The Technological Sublime as Social Event -- Infrastructural Techno-Utopias -- Public Space as "Air-Conditioning Project" -- 6. Shape: CCTV, Beijing 2002-2008 -- The Outdated Typology of the Skyscraper -- An Adaptive Species: The CCTV Building in Beijing -- New Typologies of the City -- Shape as Content and Container -- Neo-Liberal Conditions of Architectural Practice -- Plasticity, or The Dialectic between Form and Shape -- Post-Criticality -- Originality and the Avant-Garde -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Copyright
- Dismantling Modernist Fragments -- The Armature of Modernism: The Maison à Bordeaux -- Architectural Promenade and Sequential Perception -- Dismantlement and Disappearance -- Between Modernist and Surrealist Ideas -- Transgression and the Accursed Share in Architecture -- The Rational and Irrational Side of Architecture -- Architecture as Paranoid Critical Activity -- Maritime Analogy -- Un Cadavre Exquis -- Metaphoric Planning and the Skyscraper Diagram -- Montage and Filmic Reality -- The Metropolis as Manifesto of Modern Life -- Inventing Reality through Writing -- Post-Structuralist Theory, or The Whole, Real, There -- Montage and Creative History -- 4. Trajectory: Dutch Embassy, Berlin 1999-2003 -- The Trajectory as Lived Experience of the Body -- The Wall and the Cube: The Dutch Embassy in Berlin -- The Pliable Surface as Inside-Out City -- The Car as Modernist Sign of Motion and Lived Experience -- Psychogeographic Mapping of the City -- Architecture as Event, Transcript, and Folie -- Identity and Aura, or The Trajectory as Historical Narrative -- Historical Aura as Source of Identity -- Displacement, Appropriation, and Erasure of Identity -- Projecting National Identity, or The Typical and the Unique -- The Dioscuri Motif, or Standardization and Individuality -- Junkspace as the End of the Typical and the Generic -- The Typical and the Generic -- Junkspace as Dérive -- Generic versus Brand -- Typology and Flexibility, or Frame for Change -- The Trajectory as Diagram of Performance -- 5. Infrastructure: Public Library, Seattle 1999-2004 -- Expanding the Program of Semi-Public Space -- Structures for Non-Specific Events -- The Diagrammatic Section: The Seattle Public Library -- Stable and Unstable Zones, or The Event-Structure of Semi-Public Space -- Infrastructure Diagrams of Circulation -- The Dialectic between Needle and Globe Structure