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Rem Koolhaas
Conversations with Students
Rem Koolhaas
ISBN 9781885232021
Publication date 3/1/1996
5.5 x 8 inches (14.0 x 20.3 cm), Paperback
80 pages, 33 b/w illustrations
Rights: World;
Carton qty: 60;
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This book presents a recent lecture and seminar given by architect Rem Koolhaas at the Rice University School of Architecture. In this compact volume, Koolhaas addresses the urban and architectural implications of extra-large construction, using as examples three of OMA's important large-scale projects: the Zeebrugge Ferry Terminal in Belgium, the Tres Grande Bibliotheque in Paris, and the Karlsruhe Center for Art and Media Technology in Germany. Tackling questions about the difficult state of urbanism and modernism in contemporary Europe, America, and Asia, this slim volume forms a concise and coherent explanation of the theories and polemics of Koolhaas and OMA. This beautifully designed book serves as an inexpensive alternative and companion to Koolhaas's recent S,M,L,XL.
Published by the Rice University School of Architecture
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Editorial Reviews
Rem Koolhaas: Education on a Global Scale, A+U:
"The two books together illustrate a process in which the words of academic discussions become images and then architectural and urban forms, mutating as they flow between continents."
Doors of Perception Blog:
"Earlier and more clearly than any contemporary architect, Rem Koolhaas, like Manfredo Tafuri before him, recognized that architecture has been eclipsed by the Metropolis. While other architects have settled for being mere decorators of the scaffold of commerce, Koolhaas remains among the last holdouts to seek new possibilities and locuses for architecture. Though this struggle might at first seem quixotic, a form of obsessive delirium, it now appears, with the imminent arrival of his opus magnum 'S,M,L,XL', that Koolhaas may have found a temporary respite for architecture within the very concept of the extra-large, that is, in Bigness, or in the Metropolitan itself."
WeRead.com Blog:
"This book presents a recent lecture and seminar given by architect Rem Koolhaas at the Rice University School of Architecture. In this compact volume, Koolhaas addresses the urban and architectural implications of extra-large construction, using as examples three of OMA's important large-scale projects: the Zeebrugge Ferry Terminal in Belgium, the Tres Grande Bibliotheque in Paris, and the Karlsruhe Center for Art and Media Technology in Germany."
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