Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan

Arts & Photography

Rem Koolhaas

Architecture

THAMES HUDSON LTD

Rem Koolhaas' spaces for living, including his apartments and houses, are collected for the first time in book format. The Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and his well-known Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) have rightfully gained global acclaim and respect with their complex buildings (e.g. the Dutch Dance Theater in Den Haag or the Rotterdam Art Museum), and with large-scale urban plans such as Melun-SŽnart, Euralille, and Seoul. Less known but equally fascinating are Koolhaas' domestic projects. This new book highlights this important aspect of his work: with texts, plans and photographs, it presents the Patiovilla in Rotterdam, the Villa Dall'Ava in Paris, the Dutch House in Holten, the Maison à Bordeaux, and the Nexus Housing in Fukuoka/Japan. Their common theme is an intense search for freedom. As with all of Koolhaas' work, a clever play with openings, transparencies and transparent and opaque surfaces makes these living spaces permeable to the variations of light, weather, and function.

Oma Rem Koolhaas Living, Vivre, Leben

Birkhauser

Log 21 features a tug-of-war of ideas and reflection on the current status of architecture, running across time from preservation to parametricism, with some insightful entries from in between. Patrik Schumacher campaigns for parametricism as the great style to follow modernism, Ingeborg M. Rocker traces the idea of style and expands parametricism beyond form, and Eric Owen Moss questions the idea of progress. Mark Jarzombek surveys World Heritage sites and considers the metaphysics of impermanence, while Rem Koolhaas notes the march of preservation around the world and Ole W. Fischer reviews two recent books on postmodernism. Entries from around the world: Tom Daniell tells a story of Japanese names; Carson Chan pens a diary from the Venice Biennale; Ariane Lourie Harrison takes a tour of the architecture-studded Novartis campus; Michael Cadwell weighs in on Coop Himmelblau s BMW Welt; Elena Crippa and Tom Vandeputte revisit the conceptual queries on space in 1970s London; and Markus Miessen sifts through Hans Ulrich Obrist's extensive archive. Plus: an AnaLOG cabin by Mitnik Roddier Hicks, general observations on sukkahs, bottled ships, Konrad Wachsmann, Googleplex East, and much more.

Log 21

Carson Chan

Elena Crippa

Eric Owen Moss

Mark Jarzombek

Patrik Schumacher

Markus Miessen

Ingeborg M. Rocker

Michael Cadwell

Tom Vandeputte

Tom Daniell

Ole W. Fischer

Ariane Lourie Harrison

Anyone Corporation

Log 32 presents a thoughtful snapshot of the current moment in architecture with contributions from preeminent and emerging voices. A record 39 contributors to this Fall 2014 issue deliver a stimulating mix of writing styles and content, from new theories on architecture and the urban to dispatches from recent exhibitions and pavilions to interviews with new leaders in architectural pedagogy. Log 32 also includes 55 pages devoted to the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale an open-ended, manifold response to that much publicized exhibition set here among a full slate of other articles that insists on the innumerous modes of thinking architecture today. In this issue: Ross Exo Adams questions resilience; George Baird rereads landscape urbanism; Carson Chan learns nothing from Venice; Preston Scott Cohen authors successive architecture; Cynthia Davidson lunches with Odile Decq; Reinier de Graaf & Laura Baird chart megalopoli(tic)s; Marco De Michelis traces OMA exhibitions; Tina Di Carlo notes Tschumi s notations; Kurt W. Forster mines W.G. Sebald s world; Luca Galofaro builds a space station; Mikhail Grinwald & Chelsea Spencer visit fungi; Jeffrey Kipnis sees affect in event theory; Gabriele Mastrigli reevaluates Roma Interrotta ; Luke Studebaker meets Amale Andraos. Plus: Observations on the Venice Architecture Biennale by Lili Carr, Tom Daniell, Ole W. Fischer, Mark Foster Gage, Rafael Gómez-Moriana, Alicia Imperiale, Charles Jencks with Rem Koolhaas, Dora Epstein Jones, Alfie Koetter, Sanford Kwinter, Camille Lacadée, Jennifer Ly, Kyle May, Michael Meredith, Keith Mitnick, Daniel Tudor Munteanu, Paola Nicolin, Christian Parreno, Bryony Roberts, Matt Roman, Gustavo Alonso Serafin, Laura M. Tchorz, Philip Ursprung, and Emmett Zeifman.

Log 32

Cynthia Davidson

Sanford Kwinter

Michael Meredith

Charles Jencks

Reinier De Graaf

Kurt W. Forster

Mark Foster Gage

Luke Studebaker

Jeffrey Kipnis

Bryony Roberts

George Baird

Odile Decq

Preston Scott Cohen

Tina Di Carlo

Amale Androas

Living

Bruce Mau

Monacelli Press,U.S.

For several years, Harvard's design graduates concentrated their studies on the phenomenon of shopping as a primary mode of urban life. As Sze Tsung Leong writes, "Not only is shopping melting into everything, but everything is melting into shopping." ICK! So why did we pick up this book? Because Hannah at Quimby's told us to. Hannah's right; the design is very impressive, even if the motivation for it creeps us out.

Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping

Preservation is Overtaking Us brings together two lectures given by Rem Koolhaas at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, along with a response (framed as a supplement to the original lectures) by Jorge Otero-Pailos. In the first essay Koolhaas describes alternative strategies for preserving Beijing, China. The second talk marks the inaugural Paul Spencer Byard lecture, named in celebration of the longtime professor of Historic Preservation at GSAPP. These two lectures trace key moments of Koolhaas' thinking on preservation, including his practice's entry into China and the commission to redevelop the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. In a format well known to Koolhaas' readers, Otero-Pailos reworks the lectures into a working manifesto, using it to interrogate OMA's work from within the discipline of preservation.

Preservation Is Overtaking Us (GSAPP Transcripts, 1)

Columbia Books on Architecture and the City

S,M,L,XL presents a selection of the remarkable visionary design work produced by the Dutch firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.) and its acclaimed founder, Rem Koolhaas, in its first twenty years, along with a variety of insightful, often poetic writings. The inventive collaboration between Koolhaas and designer Bruce Mau is a graphic overture that weaves together architectural projects, photos and sketches, diary excerpts, personal travelogues, fairy tales, and fables, as well as critical essays on contemporary architecture and society. The book's title is also its framework: projects and essays are arranged according to scale. While Small and Medium address issues ranging from the domestic to the public, Large focuses on what Koolhaas calls "the architecture of Bigness." Extra-Large features projects at the urban scale, along with the important essay "What Ever Happened to Urbanism?" and other studies of the contemporary city. Running throughout the book is a "dictionary" of an adventurous new Koolhaasian language -- definitions, commentaries, and quotes from hundreds of literary, cultural, artistic, and architectural sources.

S M L XL

Hans Werlemann

Biographies & Memoirs

The Monacelli Press

The most important new literary journal to emerge since Granta, Open City has published some of the best work by major writers and artists such as Mary Gaitskill, Denis Johnson, Jeff Koons, David Foster Wallace, Irvine Welsh, Terry Southern, Patrick McCabe, Sam Lipsyte, and David Berman. Edited by the writers Thomas Beller and Daniel Pinchbeck and originally published by the late Robert Bingham, writing from Open City has been included in many prestigious anthologies, including Best American Short Stories and The Pushcart Prize. Known for launching the careers of today's best new writers, the editors are also committed to printing important unpublished work by writers from past eras, such as Richard Yates, Delmore Schwartz, Jim Thompson, Cyril Connolly, Edvard Munch, and Gregor von Rezzori. With its innovative and daring mix of the old and the new, Open City combines undiscovered writing by classic authors with a fascinating portrait of a literary generation in the making.

Open City, #6: The Only Woman He Ever Left

Literature & Fiction

MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM

David Means

James Purdy

Jocko Weyland

Rick Moody

Deborah Garrison

Thomas Beller

Monica Lewinsky

Strawberry Saroyan

Contemporary

Grove Press, Open City Books

Delirious New York: A retroactive manifesto for Manhattan

Oxford University Press

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