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Six canonical projects by Rem Koolhaas : essays on the history of ideas
\"Rem Koolhaas has been part of the international avant-garde since the nineteen-seventies and has been named the Pritzker Architecture Prize for the year 2000. This book, which builds on six canonical Koolhaas projects, traces the discursive practice behind the design methods used by Koolhaas and his office OMA. It uncovers recurring key themes-such as wall, void, montage, trajectory, infrastructure, and shape-that have structured this design discourse over the span of Koolhaas's oeuvre. The book moves beyond the six core pieces, as well: It explores how these identified thematic design principles manifest in other works by Koolhaas as both practical re-applications and further elaborations. In addition to Koolhaas's individual genius, these textual and material layers are accounted for shaping the very context of his work's relevance. By comparing the design principles with relevant concepts from the architectural Zeitgeist in which Koolhaas has operated, the study moves beyond its specific subject-Rem Koolhaas-and provides novel insight into the broader history of architectural ideas.\"--Publisher.
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\The Generic City\ and \Whatever Happened to Urbanism?\
For those able to muster the patience to penetrate the visual cacophony of the book S, M, L, XL by Rem Koolhaas, his firm the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), and Bruce Mau, there exists within its eye-popping graphics a couple of very lucid statements about contemporary cities: \"The Generic City\" and \"Whatever Happened to Urbanism?\" The book itself is a mixed-media collage of contemporary architectural images, manifestos, travelogues, works from Koolhaas' professional practice OMA, a glossary of terms that punctuates the entire work, and various critiques or essays on the state of contemporary architecture and urbanism. The book is organized in a spatially scalar way according to its title, from issues of the Small (houses, bus stops, hotels, details, and such) to the Extra Large (issues of cities, regions, urban form, mega-projects, and so on).
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THE INVENTION AND REINVENTION OF THE CITY
In an interview, leading urban theorist and a Pritzker Prize-winning architect Rem Koolhaas discussed how the economic and cultural changes of the twenty-first century and transforming world cities and also the practice of architecture. On whether cities around the world share common challenges, he said that what he sees more than anything is the inability of almost every political system to anticipate, mobilize and take precautions for the future, even when it is obvious that cities will grow or shrink rapidly. It doesn't take particular expertise to deal with these challenges. However, this inability to plan ahead is widespread and it is always shocking when it happens in individual cases. What is now called \"green architecture\" is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It was one of the first professions that was deeply concerned with these issues and that had an intellectual response to them.
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Project Japan : metabolism talks--
\"Once there was a nation that went to war, but after they conquered a continent their own country was destroyed by atom bombs... then the victors imposed democracy on the vanquished. For a group of apprentice architects, artists, and designers, led by a visionary, the dire situation of their country was not an obstacle but an inspiration to plan and think... although they were very different characters, the architects worked closely together to realize their dreams, staunchly supported by a super-creative bureaucracy and an activist state... after 15 years of incubation, they surprised the world with a new architecture--Metabolism--that proposed a radical makeover of the entire land... Then newspapers, magazines, and TV turned the architects into heroes: thinkers and doers, thoroughly modern men...\"--Publisher's description.
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Building for learning
Discusses contemporary architecture. Summary of a lecture given by architect Rem Koolhaas (b.1944) on 4 July 2005. The author argues that a number of recent architectural projects in which he has been involved, including designs for the Dutch Embassy in Berlin, and a concert hall in Porto, Portugal, have proved that architecture can be serious in intent, and break new ground, refers to the opening of a new branch of his architectural office called AMO, and highlights its work for the Hearst media empire, noting its recommendations for creating new magazines from Hearst's existing stable of journals, and referring to AMO's intention of creating movement between existing disciplines. He outlines his approach to the moderniation of the Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, contrasting its situation with that of the Louvre, and the Metropolitan museum in New York, comments on his work in Beijing preserving the local Hutong form of urban organization, and concludes by considering the relationship between preservation, and modernization.
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Machine landscapes : architectures of the post-anthropocene
The most significant architectural spaces in the world are now entirely empty of people. The data centres, telecommunications networks, distribution warehouses, unmanned ports and industrialised agriculture that define the very nature of who we are today are at the same time places we can never visit. Instead they are occupied by server stacks and hard drives, logistics bots and mobile shelving units, autonomous cranes and container ships, robot vacuum cleaners and internet-connected toasters, driverless tractors and taxis. This issue is an atlas of sites, architectures and infrastructures that are not built for us, but whose form, materiality and purpose is configured to anticipate the patterns of machine vision and habitation rather than our own. We are said to be living in a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene, in which humans are the dominant force shaping the planet. This collection of spaces, however, more accurately constitutes an era of the Post-Anthropocene, a period where it is technology and artificial intelligence that now computes, conditions and constructs our world. Marking the end of human-centered design, the issue turns its attention to the new typologies of the post-human, architecture without people and our endless expanse of machine landscapes.
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