OMA/Rem Koolhaas
OMA/Rem Koolhaas: A Critical Reader
Christophe Van Gerrewey (Editor)
Birkhäuser, October 2019
Hardcover/Paperback/eBook | 8-3/4 x 11 inches | 464 pages | 100 illustrations | English | ISBN: 978-3035619775 (pbk) | $44.99 (pbk)
Publisher's Description:
The activities of Rem Koolhaas and his staff were widely discussed even before the foundation of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in 1975. Today, many contributions on the work of OMA can be found in the international architectural press, including Koolhaas? own writings.
The book contains about 150 selected texts?interviews, feature articles, essays, lead articles, reviews, letters, introductions, appraisals, and competition reports that have been compiled for the first time. This compilation not only provides a fresh and critical view of the oeuvre of one the most important contemporary architects, but also represents an account of the debate on architectural and urban design in recent decades.dDAB Commentary: Last week, when I was trying to find out a bit more about the rare first edition of Rem Koolhaas's Delirious New York from 1978 (I, like many people, have the paperback edition put out in 1994 rather than the deliriously expensive first edition), I came across a review of the book published on Christmas Eve in the New York Times. Yet, instead of being written by Paul Goldberger, who was the Times architecture critic at the time and had one month before reviewed the lesser-known exhibition, The Sparkli...
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