Small, medium, large, extra-large / Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau ; edited by Jennifer Sigler ; photography by Hans Werlemann.
Contributor(s): Koolhaas, Rem
| Mau, Bruce | Sigler, Jennifer | Werlemann, Hans | Office for Metropolitan ArchitecturePublisher: New York : Monacelli Press, 1998Edition: 2nd edDescription: xxxi, 1344p. : ill. (some col.), facsims. (some col.), maps (some col.), plans ; 24 cm001: 41852ISBN: 1885254865 (hbk); 9781885254863 (hbk)Other title: S,M,L,XLSubject(s): Office for Metropolitan ArchitectureLOC classification: NA1153.K64 | S63 1998
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| Book | MAIN LIBRARY Book | 720.922 SMA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 100598 | |||
| Book | MAIN LIBRARY Book | 720.922 SMA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 2 | Checked out | 28/05/2024 | 114615 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Previous ed.: 1995.
Cover and spine title: S,M,L,XL.
Ill. and text on lining papers.
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