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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 --

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.

Taylor & Francis, Jun/16/2009/2009, 2009-1284.