false <![CDATA[Content]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172260000m/155289.jpg 155289 1 It's shaped like a trade paperback book, but its hellzapoppin pages look like a glossy, madcap magazine. Really, <I>Content</I> is more like an explosion in an idea factory, or a wild party thrown by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Rem Koolhaas in a mood considerably more delirious than his classic 1978 manifesto <I>Delirious New York</I>. It has 70 or 80 sections that look like magazine articles, and they're loosely organized in geographical order, from west to east. Pieces on Koolhaas's projects for Prada and MCA/Universal in LA and the acclaimed Seattle Public Library lead to syncopated meditations on Guggenheim Las Vegas, Chicago's van der Rohe "Miestakes," a modest plan to save Cambridge from Harvard by rechanneling the Charles River, Lagos' future as Earth's third-biggest town, the Hermitage's strange Russian past, Shanghai's Expo 2010, and Asia's skyscrapers, which now outnumber those of the West. When Koolhaas interviews Martha Stewart and gets a Las Vegas update from Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, it's straightforward, but many pages are as mystifying as hallucinations--apropos of nothing, a woman is depicted leaving her infrared heat signature on a tombstone, and Vermeer paintings are paired with scenes from TV's <I>Big Brother</I>. You don't read <I>Content</I> in linear fashion, you page through it amazed, gradually acquiring Koolhaas' ultracultivated taste for the bizarre. <I>--Tim Appelo</I> 149897 1 5 2003 Content total:74|5:14|4:31|3:22|2:4|1:3| 74 271 105 10 2 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 19:42:18 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 21:17:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2004 Tue Oct 02 22:21:53 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 02 22:21:53 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu Aug 27 20:44:51 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 20:45:51 -0700 2009 lagipula harganya cukup murah.]]> 3 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Dec 25 14:27:49 -0800 2007 Tue Dec 25 14:27:49 -0800 2007 1 0 false false Sat Jul 14 08:28:29 -0700 2007 Sat Jul 14 08:30:01 -0700 2007 no, seriously, don't take this seriously.
read it while you're taking a crap.
there are also nude women in the book, so you can also take care of something else with it.]]> 3 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Thu Jan 03 07:00:06 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 03 07:02:56 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Mon Jul 07 21:48:55 -0700 2008 Mon Jul 07 21:50:13 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Tue Nov 20 23:36:31 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 20 23:37:13 -0800 2007 5 0 false false Mon Aug 25 22:06:17 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 22:07:52 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Fri Feb 23 11:47:12 -0800 2007 Fri Feb 23 11:47:12 -0800 2007 0 0 false false Mon Oct 12 09:12:57 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 12 09:12:57 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Wed Oct 21 06:14:32 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 13:01:25 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 13:01:25 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Sep 27 15:42:31 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 27 15:42:31 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Sep 20 17:23:48 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 20 17:23:48 -0700 2009 5 0 false false Fri Sep 11 11:50:45 -0700 2009 Fri Sep 11 11:50:45 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sun Sep 06 22:48:29 -0700 2009 Sun Sep 06 22:48:29 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Sat Sep 05 15:55:31 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 05 15:55:31 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Tue Aug 25 06:37:26 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 06:37:26 -0700 2009 4 0 false false Mon Aug 24 17:03:34 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 24 17:03:34 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Tue Aug 11 07:36:25 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 11 07:36:31 -0700 2009 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=155289