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OMA Charts --<br/>Exodus, or the Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture: AA Final Project, 1972 --<br/>Delirious New York: Appendix, 1978 --<br/>Less is More: Installation for the 1986 Milan Triennale, Italy, 1985 --<br/>The House That Made Mies: Theory, 1993 --<br/>Dutch Section: House for Two Friends, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1988 --<br/>13,000 Points: Nexus World Housing, Fukuoka, Japan, 1991 --<br/>Learning Japanese: Poem, 1993 --<br/>Worth a Detour: Renovation of Hotel Furka Blick, Switzerland, 1991 --<br/>Obstacles: Villa Dall'Ava, St. Cloud, Paris, France, 1991 --<br/>Only 90[degree], Please: Video Bus Stop, Groningen, Netherlands, 1991 --<br/>Imagining Nothingness: Text, 1985 --<br/>The Terrifying Beauty of the Twentieth Century: Text, 1985 --<br/>Field Trip: (A)A Memoir: The Berlin Wall as Architecture, 1993 --<br/>Revision: Renovation of a Panopticon Prison, Arnhem, Netherlands, 1979-81 --<br/>Shipwrecked: Housing Kochstrasse/Friedrichstrasse, Berlin, Germany, 1980 --<br/>Final Push: Extension of the Dutch Parliament, The Hague, Netherlands, 1978 --<br/>Cadavre Exquis: Netherlands Dance Theater, The Hague, Netherlands, 1987 --<br/>Typical Plan: Meditation, 1993. Morgan Bank, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1985 --<br/>Byzantium Housing, Offices, Shops, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1991. Cartoon, 1994 --<br/>Globalization: Text, 1993 --<br/>Vanishing Act: Biocenter, University of Frankfurt, Germany, 1988 --<br/>Islam After Einstein: Hotel and Convention Center, Agadir, Morocco, 1990 --<br/>New Rotterdam: Architecture Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1988. Museum Park, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1994. Kunsthal I, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1987-88 --<br/>Life in the Box?: Kunsthal II, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1992. <br/>Neue Sachlichkeit: Project for an Office City, Frankfurt Airport, Germany, 1989 --<br/>Bigness, or the problem of Large: Manifesto, 1994 --<br/>Soft Substance, Harsh Town: Boompjes TowerSlab, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1979-82 --<br/>Indeterminate Specificity: The Hague City Hall, Netherlands, 1986 --<br/>Dirty Realism: A Mini-Farce, 1993 --<br/>Working Babel: Sea Terminal, Zeebrugge, Belgium, 1989 --<br/>Bifurcation: Effects of Structure, 1993 --<br/>Strategy of the Void: Tres Grande Bibliotheque, Paris, France, 1989 --<br/>Weird Science: Excerpts from a Diary, 1989 --<br/>Last Apples: Speculations on Structure and Services, 1993. From the notebook of Cecil Balmond, 1992 --<br/>Darwinian Arena: Zentrum fur Kunst and Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany, 1989-92 --<br/>Passion Play: Epitaph, 1992 --<br/>Organization of Appearances: Congrexpo (Lille Grand Palais), Lille, France, 1994 --<br/>Palace of the Soviets: Bedtime Story, 1994 --<br/>The White Sheet: Dream, 1981 --<br/>Atlanta: Journalism, 1987/1994 --<br/>Las Vegas of the Welfare State: Bijlmermeer Redevelopment, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1986 --<br/>Unlearning Holland: Point City/South City, Project for Redesigning Holland, 1993 --<br/>Congestion Without Matter: Parc de la Villette, Paris, France, 1982 --<br/>Elegy for the Vacant Lot: Text, 1985 --<br/>Their New Sobriety: Exposition Universelle 1989, Paris, France, 1983 --<br/>What Ever Happened to Urbanism?: Text, 1994 --<br/>Surrender: Ville Nouvelle Melun-Sénart, France, 1987 --<br/>Dolphins: Transportation Exchange Centers for Benelux, 1989, 1991 --<br/>Singapore Songlines: Thirty Years of Tabula Rasa: Reconstruction, 1995 --<br/>Tabula Rasa Revisited: Mission Grand Axe, La Defense, Paris, France, 1991 --<br/>Side Show: Zac Danton Office Tower, La Defense, Paris, France, 1991-93 --<br/>Quantum Leap: Euralille: Centre International d'Affaires, Lille, France, 1994 --<br/>Programmatic Lava: Urban Design Forum, Yokohama, Japan, 1992 --<br/>The Generic City: Guide, 1994.<br/><br/><br/><br/> |
| Summary, etc. |
"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."--PUBLISHER.<br/><br/>"Rem Koolhaas is founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.); the firm's most important projects include the Lille Grand Palais in Lille; the Kunsthal in Rotterdam; Netherlands Dance Theatre in The Hague; Nexus Housing in Fukuoka; the Dutch House in Holland; and Villa dall'Ava in Paris, all of which are included in S, M, L, XL. Koolhaas is author of the seminal Delirious New York and professor in practice of architecture and urban design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Bruce Mau founded the critically acclaimed firm Bruce Mau Design in 1985. He is the author of Life Style and Massive Change."--PUBLISHER. |