Delirious New York
A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
Ranked #13 in Architecture, Ranked #14 in Architecture History — see more rankings.
In this fanciful volume, Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.), both analyzes and celebrates New York City. By suggesting the city as the site for an infinite variety of human activities and events--both real and imagined--the essence of the metropolitan lifestyle, its "culture of congestion" and its architecture are revealed in a brilliant new light. "Manhattan," Koolhaas writes, "is the 20th century's Rosetta stone . . . occupied by architectural mutations (Central Park, the Skyscraper), utopian fragments (Rockefeller Center, the U.N.... more
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- #38 in Cities
- #95 in New York City
- #62 in Urban Planning
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