Six canonical projects by Rem Koolhaas : essays on the history of ideas / Ingrid Böck

By:

Böck, Ingrid, 1970- [aut]

Contributor(s):

Koolhaas, Rem, 1944- [oth]

Resource type: Ressourcentyp: BuchBookLanguage: English Series: Architektur + Analyse ; 5Publisher: Berlin : Jovis, 2015Description: 367 S. : Ill., graph. Darst ; 225 mm x 165 mmISBN:

9783868592191

Subject(s): DDC classification:

720.92 23
720.1
720

RVK: RVK: ZH 4800 | LI 48970LOC classification:

NA1153.K64

Summary: 1. Wall: Exodus, or the Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture, London 1972 : The wall as a means of division, exclusion, and difference : Good half and bad half of the city: Exodus, or the Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture ; Decision-making and the authority of the plan ; Somatology and the fictitious entity of the prison ; Deterministic form and flexibility ; Delimiting the world and enabling difference ; Taking place and the sacred nature of city walls -- The ideal city and other models of utopian life : The closed and the open society as ideal worlds ; Nova Insula Utopia, or the nowhere place ; Urban vacancy and the disappearance of public space ; Reinventing utopia, or daily life beyond necessity -- Utopia zero degree, or freedom beyond planning : the Manhattan skyscraper as utopia zero degree ; The city as script and social condenser ; Amplifying the program within structures of control ; The wall as a means of freedom beyond planning -- 2. Void: Ville Nouvelle Mulun-Sénart, Paris 1987 : Failed agencies of modern urbanism : Planning makes no difference ; Chaos and nothingness: Ville Nouvelle Melun-Sénart ; Metropolis and disorder, or the city without qualities -- Void and future development : The watertight formula of the modern city ; Tabula rasa and prospective preservation ; The grid as field of projection -- Void as environment of control and choice : Infrastructure and kit-of-parts architecture ; Experiments of the non-plan and the unhouse ; The city as social work of art -- The armature of genericity : Critical theory and the architect's status ; The end of the dialectic city ; The operating system of the Roma quadrata ; City planning and bricolage technique -- 3. Montage: Maison à Bordeaux, France 1994-1998 : Dismantling modernist fragments : The armature of modernism: The Maison à Bordeaux ; Architectural promenade and sequential perception ; Dismantlement and disappearance ; Between modernist and surrealist ideas ; Transgression and the accursed share in architecture -- The rational and irrational side of architecture : Architecture as paranoid critical activity ; Maritime analogy ; Un cadavre exquis ; Metaphoric planning and the skyscraper diagram -- Montage and filmic reality : The metropolis as manifesto of modern life ; Inventing reality through writing ; Post-structuralist theory, or the whole, real, there ; Montage and creative history -- 4. Trajectory: Dutch Embassy, Berlin 1999-2003 : The trajectory as lived experience of the body : The wall and the cube: the Dutch Embassy in Berlin ; The pliable surface as inside-out city ; The car as modernist sign of motion and lived experience ; Psychogeographic mapping of the city ; Architecture as event, transcript, and folie -- Identity and aura, or the trajectory as historical narrative : Historical aura as source of identity ; Displacement, appropriation, and erasure of identity ; Projecting national identity, or the typical and the unique ; The Dioscuri motif, or standardization and individuality ; Junkspace as the end of the typical and the generic : The typical and the generic ; Junkspace as dérive ; Generic versus brand ; Typology and flexibility, or frame for change ; The trajectory as diagram of performance -- 5. Infrastructure: Public Library, Seattle 1999-2004 : Expanding the program of semi-private space : Structures for non-specific events ; The diagrammatic section: the Seattle Public Library ; Stable and unstable zones, or the event-structure of semi-public space -- Infrastructure diagrams of circulation : The dialectic between needle and globe structure ; The elevator as a diagram of discontinuity ; The escalator as a diagram of continuity and circulation ; Shopping and the public sphere -- Technological determinism and the public sphere : The technological sublime as social event ; Infrastructural techno-utopias ; Public space as "air-conditioning project" -- 6. Shape : CCTV, Beijing 2002-2008 : The outdated typology of the skyscraper : An adaptive species: the CCTV building in Beijing ; New typologies of the city ; Shape as content and container -- Neo-liberal conditions of architectural practice : Plasticity, or the dialectic between form and shape ; Post-criticality ; Originality and the avant-garde -- ConclusionCall number: Grundsignatur: 2015 A 5220PPN: PPN: 769625304

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Holdings
Item type	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Freihandbestand ausleihbar	Bibliothek Campus Süd	arch 1.081 Koolhaas	Lesesaal Technik (LST)	2015 A 5220	Available		52922647090
Freihandbestand ausleihbar	Fachbibliothek Architektur		Bibliothek / frei aufgestellt	La Boeck 1	Available		37122999090

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