03305nam a2200361Ia 4500 pucpr 20220524144306.0 012510s1994 nyua b 000 0 eng 94076577 9781885254009 1885254008 pucpr eng pucpr pucpr rda spa CARIBET NA735.N5 K66 1994 720.97471 22 Koolhaas, Rem, 42997 Delirious New York : a retroactive manifesto for Manhattan. / Rem Koolhaas. txt New ed. New York : The Monacelli Press , 1994. 317 p. ill. ;col. ;maps. ;photo. ;plans. ; 24 cm. book rdacontent text txt rdamedia unmediaded n rdacarrier volume nc Include Bibliography Prehistory -- Coney Island: the technology of the fantastic -- The double life of Utopia: the skyscraper -- The frontier in the sky -- The skyscraper theorists -- The lives of a block: the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and the Empire State Building -- Definitive instability: the Downtown Athletic Club -- How perfect perfection can be: the creation of Rockefeller Center -- The talents of Raymond Hood -- All the Rockefeller Centers -- Radio City Music Hall: the fun never sets -- Kremlin on Fifth Avenue -- 2 Postscripts -- Europeans: Biuer! Dalí and Le Corbusier conquer New York -- Postmortem -- Appendix: A Fictional Conclusion -- "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." http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0835/94076577-d.html Architecture New York (State) New York. 54081 Local Travel New York (State) New York. 181253 Buildings New York (State) New York. 66571 249504 Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) lcc 6 New ed. NA 735.N5 General K66 1994 214247 214247 0 0 lcc 0 0 4 4 33 2009-11-09 amazon 23.10 443008 0 General NA735.N5 K66 1994 91000000006155 2016-05-27 00:00:00 1 33.10 2009-11-09 6