false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1166671822m/15203.jpg 15203 4 This extraordinary, massive, and mind-boggling 1,300-page book combines essays, manifestos, diaries, fairy tales, travelogues, a cycle of meditations on the contemporary city--and complex illustration--with work produced by Koolhaas' Office for Metropolitan Architecture over the past twenty years. This almost overwhelming accumulation of words and images illuminates the condition of architecture today--its splendors and miseries--exploring and revealing the corrosive effects of politics, context, the economy, and globalization. In some ways, this is the "Medium is the Message" of 1990s architectural discourse: guaranteed to be hugely influential in the coming decades, but grossly misunderstood by those who have not read it. The core arguments it makes about metropolitan architecture--accepting complexity and lack of centralized control--are similar to those of Kevin Kelly's Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World. Very highly recommended. 17109 1995 S, M, L, XL (Evergreen) total:158|5:63|4:53|3:29|2:12|1:1| 158 639 245 19 4 0 false false Sun Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 24 15:17:47 -0700 2008 Sun Nov 09 20:32:10 -0800 2008 more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Jan 15 13:46:34 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 15 13:47:33 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 24 06:00:53 -0800 2008 Wed Dec 24 06:01:57 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Wed Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2004 Tue Mar 13 03:17:51 -0700 2007 Tue Mar 13 03:24:56 -0700 2007 Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan. A decade after it is written, the ideas in S,M,L,XL still serve as thought-provokers in the never-ending debate on post-m...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Dec 30 14:03:47 -0800 2008 Thu Apr 09 11:13:57 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Nov 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Aug 27 23:59:05 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 03 01:40:49 -0800 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Sat Jul 14 08:30:09 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 14 08:32:02 -0700 2007 that's not even a discussion point. i think it's pretty much accepted that he's full of himself, but he has had an interesting effect on architecture.

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I learned that people will always look at the biggest book on a bookcase and think it's a dictionary. ]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2003 Tue Jul 31 22:20:14 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 31 22:51:06 -0700 2007
Tebelnya bisa ngegencet lalat sampe gepeng, tapi dalemnya ngga mulu teks. Bruce Mau mengkombinasikan visualisasi abstrak modern melalui sentuhan grafisnya untuk menjabarkan ideologi Rem Koolhaas dalam mengurai arsitektur.]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2001 Mon Feb 25 13:53:25 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 25 14:20:17 -0800 2008 i guess its ok.. REM made this book to compensate for his little buildings.]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jun 01 08:34:05 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 01 08:34:49 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Tue Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2000 Fri Jan 25 07:52:40 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 25 07:53:58 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 03 02:45:32 -0700 2007 Mon Sep 03 02:46:14 -0700 2007 very inspiring me...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Nov 13 21:54:25 -0800 2008 Thu Nov 13 21:54:34 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Fri May 09 11:14:38 -0700 2008 Fri May 09 11:15:12 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Fri May 11 02:36:36 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 28 13:59:32 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Fri Jan 25 08:57:38 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 25 08:57:54 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Tue Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Mon Aug 20 08:12:51 -0700 2007 Mon Aug 20 08:13:42 -0700 2007 5 0 false false Mon Aug 25 22:05:34 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 22:06:09 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sun Nov 15 14:07:22 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 15 14:07:22 -0800 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=15203