Junkspace with Running Room E-Book

Rem Koolhaas

• Herausgeber: Notting Hill Editions
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

In Junkspace (2011), architect Rem Koolhaas itemised in delirious detail how our cities are being overwhelmed. His celebrated jeremiad is here updated and twinned with Running Room, a fresh response from architectural critic Hal Foster.

Leseprobe

‘Junkspace is the new flamboyant, flexible, forgettable face of architecture, rendered by Rem Koolhaas in a visceral and rampantly analytical essay.’

– Office for Metropolitan Architecture

What is Junkspace? ‘… a fuzzy empire of blur, fusing high and low, public and private, straight and bent, bloated and starved’ … ‘smooth, all-inclusive, continuous, warped, busy, atrium-ridden’ … ‘the product of an encounter between escalator and air-conditioning’ … ‘like being condemned to a perpetual Jacuzzi with millions of your best friends’ … ‘this inferno of the neutral’.

Is there a future for architecture? If so, it might begin with the meditations—by turns elegant and frantic—of Rem Koolhaas and Hal Foster: ‘even if there is no outside to Junkspace, there is still running room to be made in its cracks …’

Rem Koolhaas is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. He has published works on the evolution of the contemporary metropolis, has been responsible for landmark urban projects such as the ‘EuraLille’ development in Northern France or the CCTV Tower in Beijing, and has designed master plans for, among other places, suburban Paris, the Libyan desert and Hong Kong.

Hal Foster is Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. He has written Design and Crime (2002), Prosthetic Gods (2004) and, more recently, The Art-Architecture Complex (2011). A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he writes regularly for October (which he co-edits), Artforum and the London Review of Books.

Rem Koolhaas / Hal Foster

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JUNKSPACEwith RUNNING ROOM

Contents

–Title Page –HAL FOSTER– Preface –REM KOOLHAAS– Junkspace –HAL FOSTER– Running Room –– Bibliography ––About the Publisher––Other titles from Notting Hill Editions––Copyright –