S,M,L,XL presents a selection of the remarkable visionary design work produced by the Dutch firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.) and its acclaimed founder, Rem Koolhaas, in its first twenty years, along with a variety of insightful, often poetic writings. The inventive collaboration between Koolhaas and designer Bruce Mau is a graphic overture that weaves togethe...
S,M,L,XL presents a selection of the remarkable visionary design work produced by the Dutch firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.) and its acclaimed founder, Rem Koolhaas, in its first twenty years, along with a variety of insightful, often poetic writings. The inventive collaboration between Koolhaas and designer Bruce Mau is a graphic overture that weaves together architectural projects, photos and sketches, diary excerpts, personal travelogues, fairy tales, and fables, as well as critical essays on contemporary architecture and society.
The book's title is also its framework: projects and essays are arranged according to scale. While Small and Medium address issues ranging from the domestic to the public, Large focuses on what Koolhaas calls "the architecture of Bigness." Extra-Large features projects at the urban scale, along with the important essay "What Ever Happened to Urbanism?" and other studies of the contemporary city. Running throughout the book is a "dictionary" of an adventurous new Koolhaasian language -- definitions, commentaries, and quotes from hundreds of literary, cultural, artistic, and architectural sources.
REM KOOLHAAS is founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.); the firm's most important projects include the Lille Grand Palais in Lille; the Kunsthal in Rotterdam; Netherlands Dance Theatre in The Hague; Nexus Housing in Fukuoka; the Dutch House in Holland; and Villa dall'Ava in Paris, all of which are included in S,M,L,XL. Koolhaas is author of the seminal Del...
REM KOOLHAAS is founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.); the firm's most important projects include the Lille Grand Palais in Lille; the Kunsthal in Rotterdam; Netherlands Dance Theatre in The Hague; Nexus Housing in Fukuoka; the Dutch House in Holland; and Villa dall'Ava in Paris, all of which are included in S,M,L,XL. Koolhaas is author of the seminal Delirious New York and professor in practice of architecture and urban design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
BRUCE MAU founded the critically acclaimed firm Bruce Mau Design in 1985. He is the author of Life Style and Massive Change.
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If there is to be a ‘new urbanism’ it will not be based on the twin fantasies of order and omnipotence; it will be the staging of uncertainty; it will no longer be concerned with the arrangement of more or less permanent objects but with the irrigation of territories with potential; it will no longer aim for stable configurations but for the creation of enabling fields that accommodate processes that refuse to be crystallized into definitive form; it will no longer be about meticulous definition, the imposition of limits, but about expanding notions, denying boundaries, not about separating and identifying entities, but about discovering unnamable hybrids; it will no longer be obsessed with the city but with the manipulation of infrastructure for endless utions- the reinvent... (查看原文)
墨西哥艺术家Jose Dａvila，切割了这一本书。 他把这本书割成几个体积/厚度不一样的部分：特大，大，中，小. 封底上，书的最低端，（本书的介绍/简评？）最下面一排文字是：Globalization of the world。这段（文字/书）被割成一个（小）部分。 墨西哥人这个作品名字就叫...
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The Monacelli Press1995版
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0 有用 木易焦 2011-09-09 13:36:48
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0 有用 韵子 2014-10-01 09:41:53
媒体专业出身脑洞就是大，看的时候有强烈的“出版物”的感觉，略过抽象的词语注释，只读了意义连续的大字部分，宣言和断论不敢全盘接受，但是学会了在一个大的结构下面观察现象和思考问题。
1 有用 森 2013-03-20 17:09:48
哥要毫不装逼地说一声。哥。看。不。懂。并且不是太喜欢。真的很奇怪这么高的评分哪里来的。
0 有用 如电。 2010-01-03 19:35:11
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0 有用 王情歌 2012-03-01 00:23:11
与其说是讲建筑不如说是讲建筑的表达。对库哈斯感觉一般，但肯定还是要看～