Six Canonical Projects by Rem Koolhaas : : Essays on the History of Ideas / / Ingrid Böck.

• VerfasserIn: Böck, Ingrid,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin : : JOVIS Verlag GmbH, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: architektur + analyse ; 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.) :; 138 farb. und s/w Abb.

Rem Koolhaas (geb. 1944) zählt seit den 1970er Jahren zur internationalen Architektur-Avantgarde. Neben zahlreichen weltweiten Auszeichnungen wurde er im Jahr 2000 mit dem Pritzker-Preis für sein Lebenswerk geehrt. Im vorliegenden Buch werden erstmals Koolhaas’ zahlreiche Bauten und Projekte mithilf...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• TABLE OF contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Biographical Notes
• 1. Wall: exodus, or the voluntary prisoners of architecture, London 1972
• The Wall as a Means of Division, Exclusion, and Difference
• The Ideal City and Other Models of Utopian Life
• Utopia Zero Degree, or Freedom Beyond Planning
• 2. Void: Ville Nouvelle Melun-Sénart, Paris 1987
• Failed Agencies of Modern Urbanism
• Void and Future Development
• Void as Environment of Control and Choice
• The Armature of Genericity
• 3. Montage: maison à Bordeaux, France 1994–1998
• Dismantling Modernist Fragments
• The Rational and Irrational Side of Architecture
• Montage and Filmic Reality
• 4. Trajectory: Dutch Embassy, Berlin 1999–2003
• The Trajectory as Lived Experience of the Body
• Identity and Aura, or The Trajectory as Historical Narrative
• Junkspace as the End of the Typical and the Generic
• 5. Infrastructure: Public Library, Seattle 1999–2004
• Expanding the Program of Semi-Public Space
• Infrastructure Diagrams of Circulation
• Technological Determinism and the Public Sphere
• 6. Shape: CCTV, Beijing 2002–2008
• The Outdated Typology of the Skyscraper
• Neo-Liberal Conditions of Architectural Practice
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Name Index
• Imprint