About this title: Monograph, manifesto, travelog, history, autobiography, novel--"A Guide to Ecstacity" is a bit of all of these things. The brainchild of British architectural visionary Nigel Coates, it asks us to reimagine the city as a dynamic hybrid of inventive design and cross-cultural political empowerment. Produced in the spirit of Rem Koolhaas's "S, M, L, XL," it is a palimpsest of the real and the hypothetical, with fragments of seven cities from around the world--Cairo, London, Mumbai, New York, Rio, Rome, and Tokyo--woven together into one multifaceted urban fabric. In addition to extensive ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing, London
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781856693837ISBN:185669383X
Description: Fine. 185669383x. As new, still in publisher's shrinkwrap. Combining areas of Tokyo, Cairo, London, New York, Rome, Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro, architect Nigel Coates presents "Ecstacity". It is a place of cultural clashes and hybrids. Where the real and imaginary sit side by side in a kaleidoscope of colour, drawings, maps, photographs and words. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Date Published: 2003
ISBN-13:9781568984247ISBN:1568984243
Description: Very Good. 1568984243. A very good copy. No markings. Solid binding, light standard shelfwear. Small tiny scuff inside inner board. Still a very good copy. Architecture. Pasadena's finest independent new and used bookstore.; 1.53 x 9.66 x 7.16 Inches; 454 pages. read more
Description: Combining areas of Tokyo, Cairo, London, New York, Rome, Mumbai and Rio de Janeiro, architect Nigel Coates presents Ecstacity. It is a place of cultural clashes and hybrids. where the real and imaginary sit side by side in a kaleidoscope of colour, drawings, maps, photographs and words. ISBN10: 185669383X. read more
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