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343 p. ill. (chiefly col.) ; maps ; plans ; 25 cm. This first critical monograph places the work of Rem Koolhaas and OMA in a cultural context that allows the reader to better understand the creative process of modern architecture, retracing the career of Rem Koolhaas in chronological and thematic order. Contents: 2 Chapter 1. Experiences with the Paranoid Critical Method -- 3 Studies at the Architectural Association School of Architecture of London: Berlin Wall as Architecture and Exodus -- 13 Learning from Manhattan 1972-74 -- 21 Rectangular Projects 1974-75 -- 25 The founding of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture and the project for Welfare Island 1975-76 -- 40 The case of Leonidov and the Floating Swimming Pool -- 43 The “Ductpark”, subconscious infrastructure of the metropolis -- 45 City-archipelago of Ungers: the example of Berlin -- 46 Teaching at the Architectural Association-School of Architecture 1975-80 -- 56 “The Culture of Congestion” and the poché plan of Rome by Nolli -- 62 “Delirious New York”, 1978: paranoid-critical interpretation of the girl and the skyscrapers of Manhattan -- 76 Chapter 2. New Sobriety vs. Post-Modern and Contextualism -- 77 Projects 1978-79: the criteria of the Cadavre Exquis and the Tektonik -- 83 Polemical writing of OMA 1979-80 -- 90 Works for Rotterdam, Berlin, Amsterdam and Scheveningen 1980 -- 102 “Invisible Congestion”: projects for Paris 1982-83 -- 109 The Danstheater at The Hague 1984-87: “collision” -- 114 “Vernacular Modernity” of the mid-1980s -- 118 Strategy of the “void”: project for the Ville Nouvelle at Melun-Sénart and the “Contemporary City” -- 124 The pavilion at the Milan Triennale, the De Brink in Gorningen, the two patio houses in Rotterdam: Miesian surrealism -- 130 The projects for the Churchill-plein in Rotterdam and the City Hall of The Hague: forms of Dutch Manhattanism -- 135 The villa at Saint-Cloud, 1985-91: metamorphosis of the Berlin Wall and the Floating Swimming Pool -- 142 Chapter 3. The epoch of the merveilles -- 143 Projects for the Kunsthal I and the headquarters of the Nederlands Architectuur Institut in Rotterdam 1987-88 -- 148 Kunsthal II, 1989-92, essences of the modern -- 157 The Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie at Karlsruhe and the Trés Grande Bibliothèque de France in Paris: evolutions of the Virendeel beam -- 165 From the Terminal at Zeebrugge to the Grand Palais at Lille: the “importance des merveilles -- 186 Geerlings house in Holten, metaphor of the slipping plane -- 191 Deux Bibliothèques de I’Universitiè Jussieu, Educatorium, Cardiff Bay Opera House and the “pliable surface” -- 203 The house at Floirac, or of the Floating Box -- 215 Projects for Miami, Munich, Almere -- 222 Chapter 4. S, M, L, XL, 1995: principles for a theory of architecture -- 223 Typical Plan, or the neutral rectangular plan -- 227 Theory of Bigness -- 228 “Vierendeel concept” -- 230 Generic City, utopia of the continuous surface -- 235 “Composite stability” and “caractère”: projects for towers -- 246 Chapter 5. Generic volume, informal polyhedral solids and functional diagrams -- 247 The McCormick Tribune Campus Center and the US facilities of Prada: Haussmannian poche and “sponge” -- 258 Guggenheim Museum: OMA vs. Las Vega -- 263 The generic volume with trajectory and the prism with sloping planes: Almere Block 6, Dutch Embassy, Haus um die Schenkung -- 272 The Y2K house, the Casa da Música, the Seattle Public Library: informal polyhedra -- 298 Variants of “Manhattanism” -- 302 Form or program: NeWhitney and LACMA -- 309 Koningin Julianaplein, CCTV and TVCC Hamburg Hafencity: apotheosis of the merveilles -- 320 Junkspace -- 322 Universal Modernization Patent -- 324 The age of icon -- 329 Automatically generated Land Art/Architecture from Ras al Khaimah to St. Petersburg -- 339 Name Index -- Roberto Gargiani ; translated from the Italian by Stephen Piccolo. "Distributed by Routledge." Includes bibliographical references and index. Koolhaas, Rem Criticism and interpretation Office for Metropolitan Architecture. Architecture, Modern 20th century Office for Metropolitan Architecture NA1153.K64 G37 2008 2940222223 (EPFL : hbk.) 9782940222223 (EPFL : hbk.) 0415461456 (Routledge : hbk.) 9780415461450 (Routledge : hbk.) pucpr 050410 20260909153357.0 eng