| Rem Koolhaas / OMA: Essays in Architecture |
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Buy now Author: Roberto Gargiani Paperback: 352 pages Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (18 September, 2008) Language: English ISBN-10: 0415461456 ISBN-13: 978-0415461450 Publishers blurb: In this book, the projects, buildings and theories of Koolhaas, as well as the other members of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, are examined in chronological and thematic sequence, beginning with the period of Koolhaas’ education at the Architectural Association School of Architecture of London in the cultural context of the neo-avant-gardes at the end of the 60s and at the beginning of the 70s. The essay then discusses the period of his stay in New-York, his contact with Ungers, Eisenman, Rowe, as well as the polemic confrontation with the emerging post-modernism movement; and it concludes with the last critical contributions of Koolhaas. |
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