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Delirious New York : a retroactice manifesto for Manhattan / Rem Koolhaas

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Unites States of America : Monacelli Press, c1994Description: 317 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781885254009
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • NA 735 .K66 1994
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Books Books National University - Manila LRC - Architecture General Circulation COA General GC NA 735 .K66 1994 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c.1 Available NULIB000007058

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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.

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.

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