Preservation is overtaking us
By: Rem Koolhaas. Supplement to OMA's Preservation manifesto / Jorge Otero-Pailos ; introduction by Mark Wigley ; edited by Jordan Carver
Contributors: Wigley, Mark, writer of introduction; Carver, Jordan, editor; Koolhaas, Rem; Otero-Pailos, Jorge; Columbia University. Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation
Series: GSAPP transcripts; GSAPP transcripts
Publisher: GSAPP Books
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9781883584740; 9781883584986
Subjects: Architecture and society; Historic preservation
Work titles: Speeches
Description: Preservation is Overtaking Us brings together two lectures given by Rem Koolhaas at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, along with a response (framed as a supplement to the original lectures) by Jorge Otero-Pailos. In the first essay Koolhaas describes alternative strategies for preserving Beijing, China. The second talk marks the inaugural Paul Spencer Byard lecture, named in celebration of the longtime professor of Historic Preservation at GSAPP. These two lectures trace key moments of Koolhaas' thinking on preservation, including his practice's entry into China and the commission to redevelop the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. In a format well known to Koolhaas' readers, Otero-Pailos reworks the lectures into a working manifesto, using it to interrogate OMA's work from within the discipline of preservation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Recent work / Rem Koolhaas; title: The Paul S. Byard Memorial Lecture / Rem Koolhaas; title: OMA's Preservation manifesto; title: Supplement to OMA'S Preservation manifesto / Jorge Otero-Pailos.