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Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan

Door Rem Koolhaas

Categorie	Algemeen Architectuur & Bouwkunde
Boeknummer	#337659-XB33
Titel	Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
Auteur	Koolhaas, Rem
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	New York : Monacelli Press
Jaar van uitgave	1994
ISBN10	1885254008
ISBN13	9781885254009
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original paperback, numerous (full page) colour and b/w illustrations (including photographs), 8vo.
Samenvatting	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), utopi... (Lees verder)an 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.
Pagina's	317
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 12,50

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