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.
作者简介
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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.
Who does not long for that histrionic branch of the profession that leapt like clowns--pathetic yet courageous--off one cliff after another, hoping to fly, flapping with inadequate wings, but enjoying at least the free-fall of pure speculation?
Maybe such nostalgia is not merely a longing for the former authority of this profession (no one can seriously believe that architecture has become less authoritarian) but simply for fantasy. (查看原文)
...a system of fragments.
Nothingness here would be a modified Caspar David Friedrich landscape--a Teutonic forest intersected by Arizona highways; in fact, a Switzerland. (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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Japanese pornography 99% about female resistance overwhelmed by repetitive insistence of male. First commandment of Japanese censorship:pubic hair and genitals may not be shown. This generates intellectual issue:invention/development of possible substitutes, and sexual program:larger sensual impact through elimination of responsible parts. First stylization is reduction of color scheme:black (h...
2021-06-27 18:47:45
Japanese pornography 99% about female resistance overwhelmed by repetitive insistence of male.
First commandment of Japanese censorship:pubic hair and genitals may not be shown. This generates intellectual issue:invention/development of possible substitutes, and sexual program:larger sensual impact through elimination of responsible parts.
First stylization is reduction of color scheme:black (hair), yellow (skin),lilac with,in the beginning, white (panties); for some reason,the frisson of racial mixing leaves Japanese cold(rare arena of doubt?).
Four techniques regulate living with(out) sex.(Ways of both transcending and maintaining taboos.)
1.Excision
Most radical in print: surgical elimination of offensive elements from image; in drawn material attention is pulled irresistibly to white areas;in photos to black absences.Transfer of importance from the defined to the residual:"open regions" inserted in areas of high specificity subject to continuous, heightened speculation. In unstable material (i.e., video and film) this tactic would be almost technically impossible: a kind of reverse animation of elimination.
2.Cover
"Everything" implied through (more or less flimsy)material; can bring its own suspense through, for instance, wetness or form changes;this low-tech, classical strategy is so effective that Japanese lovers often stay marooned indefinitely in state of semi-undress.
3.Burnout
When nakedness is achieved on video,camera may linger on inoffensive part of body, whose motions convey activity beyond the frame;in long shots bodies organized to shield actual points of engagement; explicitness means "hole"(of light)-a miniature bouncing "sun"—burned into image, always there where the action is, giving the potentially sordid an almost exalted dimension.(Buddhism?)Me, her, and the sun.
4.Digitization
Within the otherwise normal image appear gridded zones of varying size,each square a color:black, cafe-au-lait,pink in ever-shifting relationships; more subtle Mondrians. Sometimes, a momentary constellation suggests "the idea" of identifiable parts.
The fault line between the gridded censorship cloud and the conventional image, where the traditional world -expressions,intensities,suspense, love (?), desperation一yields to digitization, is a potent metaphor for this fin de siecle: prototype of possible traffic between real and virtualworlds, and utopian model, maybe,of their eventual coexistence.
Emerging from the pure abstractionof the censored zone:jets of sperm --white squares that turn into small blobs and land on real flesh.
Furnished with ramps, stairs, escalators, and elevators, it gives the impression of kinetic activity, of people coming in and out of offices, going up and down stairs, stopping in coffee lounges. (Atrium)
2017-02-22 15:39:50
Furnished with ramps, stairs, escalators, and elevators, it gives the impression of kinetic activity, of people coming in and out of offices, going up and down stairs, stopping in coffee lounges. (Atrium)引自第26页
Throughout this study, I have sought to identify moments in which modern urban scenes do not erase, but rather stage literary, cinematic, and spatial narratives of memory in the post-dictatorial Southern Cone. In the process, I intended to demonstrate that memory remains a vital aspect of everyday life and, therefore, continues to imprint the cityscape beyond those sites designated as official ...(3回应)
2013-12-19 10:11:55
Throughout this study, I have sought to identify moments in which modern urban
scenes do not erase, but rather stage literary, cinematic, and spatial narratives of memory
in the post-dictatorial Southern Cone. In the process, I intended to demonstrate that
memory remains a vital aspect of everyday life and, therefore, continues to imprint the
cityscape beyond those sites designated as official memorials. The works I have analyzed
in this study demonstrate that memoryscapes recur among those landscapes previously
dissociated from remembrance: places of transit and uniformity, repurposed places, entire
cities on the brink of ruin. Emergent memoryscapes suggest complementary efforts to
work through memories of the past and to understand with greater clarity its influence on
the present, since space becomes a medium through which to articulate memory. As a
consequence, those places most emblematic of the legacy of the Southern Cone
dictatorships—places symbolic, more generally, of international commerce, mobility, and
modernity—provide a staging ground for articulating memory.
(实际页码为 XX) 在边上的“字典”里看到老库的冷笑话: ALPHABETIZED Rose had a kitchen that was so completely alphabetized, you'd find the allspice next to the ant poison.(3回应)
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(实际页码为 XX)
在边上的“字典”里看到老库的冷笑话:
ALPHABETIZED
Rose had a kitchen that was so completely alphabetized, you'd find the allspice next to the ant poison.引自第20页
Furnished with ramps, stairs, escalators, and elevators, it gives the impression of kinetic activity, of people coming in and out of offices, going up and down stairs, stopping in coffee lounges. (Atrium)
2017-02-22 15:39:50
Furnished with ramps, stairs, escalators, and elevators, it gives the impression of kinetic activity, of people coming in and out of offices, going up and down stairs, stopping in coffee lounges. (Atrium)引自第26页
Who does not long for that histrionic branch of the profession that leapt like clowns--pathetic yet courageous--off one cliff after another, hoping to fly, flapping with inadequate wings, but enjoying at least the free-fall of pure speculation? Maybe such nostalgia is not merely a longing for the former authority of this profession (no one can seriously believe that architecture has become less...
2013-02-07 22:45:29
Who does not long for that histrionic branch of the profession that leapt like clowns--pathetic yet courageous--off one cliff after another, hoping to fly, flapping with inadequate wings, but enjoying at least the free-fall of pure speculation?
Maybe such nostalgia is not merely a longing for the former authority of this profession (no one can seriously believe that architecture has become less authoritarian) but simply for fantasy.引自 Imagining Nothingness
Japanese pornography 99% about female resistance overwhelmed by repetitive insistence of male. First commandment of Japanese censorship:pubic hair and genitals may not be shown. This generates intellectual issue:invention/development of possible substitutes, and sexual program:larger sensual impact through elimination of responsible parts. First stylization is reduction of color scheme:black (h...
2021-06-27 18:47:45
Japanese pornography 99% about female resistance overwhelmed by repetitive insistence of male.
First commandment of Japanese censorship:pubic hair and genitals may not be shown. This generates intellectual issue:invention/development of possible substitutes, and sexual program:larger sensual impact through elimination of responsible parts.
First stylization is reduction of color scheme:black (hair), yellow (skin),lilac with,in the beginning, white (panties); for some reason,the frisson of racial mixing leaves Japanese cold(rare arena of doubt?).
Four techniques regulate living with(out) sex.(Ways of both transcending and maintaining taboos.)
1.Excision
Most radical in print: surgical elimination of offensive elements from image; in drawn material attention is pulled irresistibly to white areas;in photos to black absences.Transfer of importance from the defined to the residual:"open regions" inserted in areas of high specificity subject to continuous, heightened speculation. In unstable material (i.e., video and film) this tactic would be almost technically impossible: a kind of reverse animation of elimination.
2.Cover
"Everything" implied through (more or less flimsy)material; can bring its own suspense through, for instance, wetness or form changes;this low-tech, classical strategy is so effective that Japanese lovers often stay marooned indefinitely in state of semi-undress.
3.Burnout
When nakedness is achieved on video,camera may linger on inoffensive part of body, whose motions convey activity beyond the frame;in long shots bodies organized to shield actual points of engagement; explicitness means "hole"(of light)-a miniature bouncing "sun"—burned into image, always there where the action is, giving the potentially sordid an almost exalted dimension.(Buddhism?)Me, her, and the sun.
4.Digitization
Within the otherwise normal image appear gridded zones of varying size,each square a color:black, cafe-au-lait,pink in ever-shifting relationships; more subtle Mondrians. Sometimes, a momentary constellation suggests "the idea" of identifiable parts.
The fault line between the gridded censorship cloud and the conventional image, where the traditional world -expressions,intensities,suspense, love (?), desperation一yields to digitization, is a potent metaphor for this fin de siecle: prototype of possible traffic between real and virtualworlds, and utopian model, maybe,of their eventual coexistence.
Emerging from the pure abstractionof the censored zone:jets of sperm --white squares that turn into small blobs and land on real flesh.
Furnished with ramps, stairs, escalators, and elevators, it gives the impression of kinetic activity, of people coming in and out of offices, going up and down stairs, stopping in coffee lounges. (Atrium)
2017-02-22 15:39:50
Furnished with ramps, stairs, escalators, and elevators, it gives the impression of kinetic activity, of people coming in and out of offices, going up and down stairs, stopping in coffee lounges. (Atrium)引自第26页
Throughout this study, I have sought to identify moments in which modern urban scenes do not erase, but rather stage literary, cinematic, and spatial narratives of memory in the post-dictatorial Southern Cone. In the process, I intended to demonstrate that memory remains a vital aspect of everyday life and, therefore, continues to imprint the cityscape beyond those sites designated as official ...(3回应)
2013-12-19 10:11:55
Throughout this study, I have sought to identify moments in which modern urban
scenes do not erase, but rather stage literary, cinematic, and spatial narratives of memory
in the post-dictatorial Southern Cone. In the process, I intended to demonstrate that
memory remains a vital aspect of everyday life and, therefore, continues to imprint the
cityscape beyond those sites designated as official memorials. The works I have analyzed
in this study demonstrate that memoryscapes recur among those landscapes previously
dissociated from remembrance: places of transit and uniformity, repurposed places, entire
cities on the brink of ruin. Emergent memoryscapes suggest complementary efforts to
work through memories of the past and to understand with greater clarity its influence on
the present, since space becomes a medium through which to articulate memory. As a
consequence, those places most emblematic of the legacy of the Southern Cone
dictatorships—places symbolic, more generally, of international commerce, mobility, and
modernity—provide a staging ground for articulating memory.
1 有用 碎碎评评 2012-02-22 08:11:40
库哈斯对立面和倾角的理解俨然已经扶摇云端,构筑自我矛盾的现代化乌托邦。他是作家,然后才是设计师,这点毋庸置疑。
1 有用 sapt 2010-06-17 04:19:31
不见得真的有这么差,但是我真的不喜欢他
0 有用 ArchidOggy 2010-04-20 23:22:21
砖头重量与深度
0 有用 木易焦 2011-09-09 13:36:48
选读
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。
0 有用 沂元 2022-02-19 20:33:53
my bible
0 有用 z 2021-12-09 11:23:09
前卫而狂热 对于构成、城市、民族与地域性、自由主义和未来主义的看法真的嗔目结舌 光是排版就够好多人学一辈子了 虽然没那么喜欢库哈斯 但他真是奇人
0 有用 Aphroce 2021-11-08 11:35:16
配合oma那个elements展览来读感觉好一些
0 有用 私珩 2021-06-29 17:33:52
1.副标题:弗洛伊德马克思主义在建筑领域的实践。(没想到真有一个这样的学派。。。) 2.最精彩的是那些按字母表排列的“弹幕”。就像把一个花瓶打碎,然后把碎片从小到大排列好。
0 有用 透明的香蕉鱼 2021-03-22 15:36:55
假装读完了 今天有多少图都是从这本书里诞生的