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World Hotels - S M L XL: Second Edition
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Manufacturer: Monacelli Press
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 720.9
EAN: 9781885254863
ISBN: 1885254865
Label: Monacelli Press
Manufacturer: Monacelli Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 1376
Publication Date: 1997-10-01
Publisher: Monacelli Press
Studio: Monacelli Press
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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.
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Summary: urbanism clasics
Comment: I am grateful and happy to have in my presence one of the greatest urbanism clasic books of 20th century. Remarkable book. I learn a lot! Rem is outstanding and extraordinary.
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Summary: not gotten the book yet
Comment: please, i have not gotten my book yet. give me an information about it. Glenda
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Summary: "Don't judge a book by its cover" by Lira Luis, AIA, RIBA, LEED-AP
Comment: I received a copy of this book as a christmas gift. As an architect, I tell you the guy who gave it to me scored some major brownie points from me that holiday.
Rem Koolhaas defies tradition both in his architecture and his literature. He is foremost a journalist before fully shifting gears to architecture. In this book, he engages the reader by making you realize that while an immediate impression of intimidation engulfs you at first glance of its sheer density, once you start flipping the pages, you realize that you don't have to follow any order in reading it. There are no rules or boundaries on how you read the book: you can flip, you can toss, you can flicker, and in each and every method you will find amusement with the visual eye candy the images, graphics, and text, this book gives you. Nice addition to any architecture book collection/library/coffee table.
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Summary: Browse someone else's copy
Comment: An acquaintance had a copy of this so I looked through it during a dinner party. Blah. Bah! It's full of facetious, egotistical monoliths (from the edifices to the book itself) that offer nothing but themselves to the rest of the urban experience. Le Corbusier of the late 20th century. Gawd, I hope Koolhaas doesn't take that as a compliment.
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Summary: Uma boa aquisição!
Comment: Realmente atendeu as expectativas. Um belíssimo livro em um bom preço e no prazo de entrega informado.
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