Six Canonical Projects by Rem Koolhaas
Publisher: jovis Verlag; JOVIS; Jovis Verlag
Published: Jul 28, 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
ISBN-13: 9783868592191
Description: 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 book interprets his many buildings and projects by drawing on Koolhaas' own theoretical oeuvre of polemics, manifestos, interviews, books such as Delirious New York and his so-called "design patents." In these writings, Koolhaas articulates a design method that links theory and practice, which this book not only orients within architectural history, but also shows how it repositions the function of the authors or the architects themselves.
Notes: Austrian Science Fund PUB 258

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