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By Rem Koolhaas

ISBN-10: 1885254008

ISBN-13: 9781885254009

considering the fact that its unique booklet in 1978, Delirious New York has attained mythic prestige. again in print in a newly designed variation, this influential cultural, architectural, and social heritage of latest York is much more renowned, promoting out its first printing on e-book. Rem Koolhaas's party and research of latest York depicts town as a metaphor for the really good number of human habit. on the finish of the 19th century, inhabitants, details, and expertise explosions made new york a laboratory for the discovery and trying out of a metropolitan way of life -- "the tradition of congestion" -- and its architecture.

"Manhattan," he writes, "is the twentieth century's Rosetta Stone . . . occupied through architectural mutations (Central Park, the Skyscraper), utopian fragments (Rockefeller middle, the U.N. Building), and irrational phenomena (Radio urban tune Hall)." Koolhaas translates and reinterprets the dynamic courting among structure and tradition in a few telling episodes of recent York's background, together with the imposition of the ny grid, the construction of Coney Island, and the improvement of the skyscraper. Delirious New York is additionally filled with fascinating and enjoyable evidence and illustrated with witty watercolors and quirky archival drawings, images, postcards, and maps. The spirit of this visionary research of new york equals the strength of the town itself.

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