1300 pages d'essais, de manifestes, de journaux, de contes de fées, de carnets de route, un cycle de méditations sur la ville contemporaine. Cette accumulation presque écrasante de mots et des images illumine la condition d'architecture aujourd'hui - ses splendeurs et adversités - l'exploration et la révélation des effets corrosifs de la politique, du contexte, de l'économie et de la mondialisation. Très fortement recommandé.
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More than two thousand illustrations, many in color highlight an intriguing overview of Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas's work, including his building designs, sketches, and shrewd commentary on modern art, architecture, and social conditions, in a new, low-priced edition of a critically acclaimed work.
O.M.A. has developed a very specific approach towards urbanism and architecture. Instead of denial of complexity, lack of control, opposition, contradiction, and Bigness, they embrace these conditions and declare them as the starting point for their projects. The urban context specifically, they state, no longer can be controlled in the "classical" manner of Modernism.
