Koolhaas in Beijing
By: Edzard Mik ; [translation, Jonathan Reeder ; photography, Jim Gourley]
Contributors: Gourley, Jim
Series: Essay -- 005; Essay (Fonds voor beeldende kunsten, vormgeving en bouwkunst) -- 005.
Publisher: Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng
Number of pages: 112
ISBN-13: 9789076936277
Subjects: Buildings, Structures; Buildings; Criticism and interpretation; History; Office buildings; Zhong yang dian shi tai (Beijing, China)
Description: "Architects, contrary to most artists, work by definition from the core of society. Rem Koolhaas is one of the few architects who demonstrates the ability to do so while maintaining a critical distance. Does his strategy contain a hint for artists on how to create significant art in a world where everything seems bound for insignificance? Writer Edzard Mik visited the CCTV building in Beijing, designed by Rem Koolhaas's OMA, and wrote a lyrical 'road essay' about Koolhaas, Beijing and on being an artist in the twenty-first century"--Jacket.