A substantial text--over 1,000 pages--documenting the career of architect Rem Koolhaas. Winner of an American Institute of Architects International Architecture Book Award for 1996.
The Pearl River Delta region is a cluster of five cities that will become a megalopolis of 36 million inhabitants by the year 2020. Based on fieldwork conducted from 1996-1997, this book consists of a series of interrelated studies on the Westernization of the area.
Three of today's great architects and designers reveal the colours which feature most significantly in their work. *The nature of colour should change - no longer just a thin layer of change, but something that genuinely alters perception" and this stipulation of Rem Koolhaas is echoed by the world famous architects and designers Alessandro ...
This book takes place at the cusp of the 20th and 21st centuries, in the pre- and post-September 11th world. It is a singular product of its time, packed full of words and images portraying the architectural projects and metaphysical mechanics that have defined Rem Koolhas's OMA-AMO firm over the past seven years. In the format of a small, thick ...
This is a series of essays, statistical analyzes and reflections that together portray the people, techniques, ideologies, inventions, and spaces by which shopping has refashioned the city.
Since its original publication in 1978, "Delirious New York" has attained mythic status. Back in print in a newly designed edition, this influential cultural, architectural, and social history of New York is even more popular, selling out its first printing on publication. Rem Koolhaas's celebration and analysis of New York depicts the city as a ...
This book presents a recent lecture and seminar given by architect Rem Koolhaas at the Rice University School of Architecture. In this compact volume, Koolhaas addresses the urban and architectural implications of extra-large construction, using as examples three of OMA's important large-scale projects: the Zeebrugge Ferry Terminal in Belgium, the ...
This set of postcards presents nine of Rem Koolhaas' most important realized buildings from 1987 to 1998: Netherlands Dance Theater, Patiovilla Rotterdam, Nexus Housing Fukuoka, Villa Dall' Ava Paris, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Dutch House, Lille Grand Palais, Educatorium Utrecht, Maison a Bordeaux. Each project is illustrated with two postcards; a ...
With his inimitable style and unique view of architecture and design in the international urban milieu, Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas presents his theories and designs for Prada stores in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Tokyo. After musing over ideas about branding, expansion, tourism, and work-space, Koolhaas launches into the specifics ...
A mixture of theory and social commentary on the architecture of Manhattan. Winner of an American Institute of Architects International Architecture Book Award for 1995-96.
This is history's most opulent collection of town maps and illustrations. It is the complete reprint of all 531 color plates from Braun and Hogenberg's survey of town maps, city views, and plans of Europe, Africa, Asia and Central America, with dozens of unusual details as well as selected extracts from the original text and an in-depth commentary ...
The Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and his Rotterdam Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) have gained global acclaim and respect with their complex building tasks (for example, the Dutch Dance Theatre in Den Haag or the Rotterdam Art Museum), and with large-scale urban plans as for Melun-Senart, Euralille and Seoul. Less known are Koolhaas' ...
Featuring colour photographs of exteriors and interiors, detailed plans, layouts and brief, comprehensive texts, each volume in this series highlights the work of a 20th-century architect. The series is intended to provide an easy reference for work, school or leisure.
The acceleration of the phenomenon of urbanization constitutes one of the challenges of our time. In a world redefined by communication networks and by the progressive erasure of borders lead by economic forces, "Mutations" reflects on the transformations that the acceleration of these processes inflicts on our environment, and on the space left ...
After more than 15 years--during which it exhibited work by such artists as Louise Bourgeois, Dan Flavin, Carsten Holler, Barry McGee, Tom Friedman, Francesco Vezzoli, Tom Sachs and Nathalie Djurberg and hosted numerous lectures, panels and film festivals of unusual sophistication--Milan's Prada Foundation is widening its exhibition spaces and ...
Almere, the Netherlands' newest town, took a significant step towards maturity with its recently completed city center, designed by Rem Koolhaas, leader of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.), the Netherlands' most internationally oriented architectural practice. Compared to such high-profile O.M.A. achievements as Euralille and ...
This book looks at the Ruhr region of Germany as a model for the decentralized communications culture of the digital age, and as a future workshop for new forms of communication. Using new telecommunications media to enhance the artistic dialogue between contributors to this book, Connected Cities documents interactive and spatial projects by ...
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Each summer, London's Serpentine Gallery commissions an internationally acclaimed architect to design a temporary pavilion for its lawn. This volume documents the 2006 Serpentine Pavilion, co-designed by architect Rem Koolhaas and structural designer Cecil Balmond. Frieze by Thomas Demand.
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