S M L XL |  | Authors: Rem Koolhaas, Bruce Mau, Hans Werlemann
Publisher: Monacelli Press
Category: Book
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Languages: English (Unknown), English (Original Language), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 2nd
Pages: 1376
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 6.1
Dimensions (in): 7.2 x 2.8 x 9.4
ISBN: 1885254865
EAN: 9781885254863
ASIN: 1885254865
Publication Date: October 1, 1997
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| • | Hardcover - S, M. L, XL O.M.A. (OMA) | | • | Hardcover - S,M,L,XL | | • | Hardcover - S,M,L,Xl [HC,1998] | | • | Hardcover - S,M,L,Xl |
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Product Description
S,M,L,XL presents a selection of the remarkable visionary design work produced by the Dutch firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.) and its acclaimed founder, Rem Koolhaas, in its first twenty years, along with a variety of insightful, often poetic writings. The inventive collaboration between Koolhaas and designer Bruce Mau is a graphic overture that weaves together architectural projects, photos and sketches, diary excerpts, personal travelogues, fairy tales, and fables, as well as critical essays on contemporary architecture and society.
The book's title is also its framework: projects and essays are arranged according to scale. While Small and Medium address issues ranging from the domestic to the public, Large focuses on what Koolhaas calls "the architecture of Bigness." Extra-Large features projects at the urban scale, along with the important essay "What Ever Happened to Urbanism?" and other studies of the contemporary city. Running throughout the book is a "dictionary" of an adventurous new Koolhaasian language -- definitions, commentaries, and quotes from hundreds of literary, cultural, artistic, and architectural sources.
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