Rem Koolhaas - GEBRAUCHT Delirious New York A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan - Preis vom 05072023 043534 h

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 conges tion -- 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.