EAN: 9781885254009

REM KOOLHAAS - GEBRAUCHT DELIRIOUS NEW YORK A R...

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 metaphor for the incredible variety
of human behavior. At the end of the nineteenth century  population  information  and
technology explosions made Manhattan a laboratory for the invention and testing of a
metropolitan lifestyle -- the culture of congestion -- and its architecture. Manhattan  he
writes  is the 20th century's Rosetta Stone . . . occupied by architectural mutations (Central
Park  the Skyscraper)  utopian fragments (Rockefeller Center  the U.N. Building)  and
irrational phenomena (Radio City Music Hall). Koolhaas interprets and reinterprets the dynamic
relationship between architecture and culture in a number of telling episodes of New York's
history  including the imposition of the Manhattan grid  the creation of Coney Island  and the
development of the skyscraper. Delirious New York is also packed with intriguing and fun facts
and illustrated with witty watercolors and quirky archival drawings  photographs  postcards 
and maps. The spirit of this visionary investigation of Manhattan equals the energy of the city
itself.

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