Delirious New York - A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
Author: Rem Koolhaas
Code: LIARAR0289379
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A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
Author: Rem Koolhaas
Publisher: Monacelli Press
Place of printing: New York
Year of publication: 1994
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.
Product Condition:
Copy in good condition. Cover with traces of dust and signs of wear. Yellowing of the pages and cuts with traces of dust. Text in English. Book in good condition.
ISBN Code: 1885254008
EAN: 9781885254009
Pages: 317
Format: Paperback
Dimensions (cm):
Height: 24
Width: 18
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Text in English. Text in English. Book in good condition. B/W images ft and ft
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A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
Author: Rem Koolhaas
Code: LIARAR0289379
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