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Taschen, 2011
Project Japan: Metabolism Talks... An oral history by Rem
Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist documenting the first non-Western
avant-garde movement in architecture and the last moment that
architecture was a public rather than a private affair...
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Archis Foundation, 2010
Al Manakh: Gulf Continued is an essential and
comprehensive guide to the cities of the Gulf, penetrating media
clichés and delving deep into the new challenges facing the region
in the wake of the financial crisis. Edited by Todd Reisz; produced
by AMO, Archis, Pink Tank and the NAi.
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Quodlibet, 2010
Translated into Italian, Koolhaas's book-length essay from
S,M,L,XL tracking Singapore's rapid transformation from colonial
relic to laboratory for the 21st century city: "the city represents
the ideological production of the past three decades in its pure
form, uncontaminated by surviving contextual remnants."
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Domus, July 2006
AMO/OMA guest edit an issue of Domus, looking at four recent
buildings not through our eyes but through the broader media and
cultural context which these projects entered into, and through the
intimate and critical experiences of their users.
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GG minima, 2006 (first published in S,M,L,XL, 1995)
Rem Koolhaas's reflection on the inexorable convergence of global
cities and what is left when identity is stripped away.
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Condé Nast, June 2003
AMO and Rem Koolhaas guest-edit an issue of the groundbreaking
tech magazine, Wired, presenting an atlas of "30 Spaces for the
21st Century" and articles on emerging geopolitical and
technological domains by Mark Leonard, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Bruno
Latour, Beatrice Colomina among others. The issue also includes
Koolhaas's reconsideration of New York, 25 years after Delirious
New York.
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Taschen, 2004
Content is a follow-up to SMLXL, an inventory of seven years of
OMA's tireless labour. In many ways it is structured according to
what its predecessor is not - dense, cheap, disposable. The
relentless internal logic that propelled SMLXL is here counteracted
by the incorporation of critical, external voices.
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Fondazione Prada, 2008
The Prada Foundation, based in Milan and started in 1993,
documents its history and OMA's plans to renovate and expand the
exhibition spaces through interventions in a compound of
post-industrial buildings.
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Taschen, 2002
A study by OMA and the Harvard Graduate School of Design on the
Pearl River Delta, an area of China undergoing a maelstrom of
modernization and set to become a megalopolis of 36 million
inhabitants by 2020.
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Taschen, 2001
Shopping is arguably the last remaining form of public activity.
The Harvard Guide to Shopping, made by the Harvard Graduate School
of Design and OMA, explores the spaces, people, techniques,
ideologies, and inventions by which shopping has so dramatically
refashioned the city at the turn of the century.
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Archis Foundation, 2007
A joint production of AMO, Moutamarat, and Archis, Al Manakh offers
the first detailed analysis of the current urban condition in the
Gulf and discusses the implications of the rapid development of
this territory for the rest of the world.
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An unauthorized Farsi translation and redesign, including sections
on the Seattle Library, Casa da Musica, CCTV and other more recent
buildings designed after S,M,L,XL was first published.
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A catalogue accompanying the exhibition 'OMA
in The Hague' at the Stroom centre for art and architecture in
2006. Presented in the form of a travel guide, this booklet surveys
all OMA's many built (eg. Nederlands Danse Theater, 1987), future
(eg. KJ Plein) and never realized (eg. City Hall, 1986) projects in
The Hague.
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Made on the occasion of the exhibition 'Fin de Siecle - OMA Rem
Koolhaas' at the Institut Français d'Architecture, Paris, in 1990,
this book features the maps and sketches that led to OMA's
masterplan for Lille, realized in 1994.
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Quodlibet, 2006
Junkspace is the new flamboyant, flexible, forgettable face of
architecture, rendered by Rem Koolhaas in a visceral and rampantly
analytical essay.
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Fondazione Prada, 2001
Research undertaken by OMA/AMO into the condition and
possibilities for Prada as they conceived new epicentre stores in
New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
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Actar, 2001
Mutations, a joint project of Rem Koolhaas/OMA and the Harvard
Project on the City, explores the unstable urban conditions around
the world at the turn of the 21st century, a tipping point at which
the world's city-dwellers began to outnumber those in rural
areas.
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Lars Müller Publishers, 2006
An accordian-style foldout booklet accompanying OMA/AMO's
exhibition on the Gulf at the 2006 Venice Architecture Biennale,
investigating the feverish production of urban substance on sites
where nomads roamed unmolested only half a century ago.
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Monacelli Press, 1995
A mammoth compendium of 20 years of OMA's projects, arranged in
order of size, this book gives an insight into the restless,
ingenuitive thinking of the office through an era when architecture
became a mere bystander to the explosion of the market economy and
globalization.
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Thames & Hudson, 1978 (original)
Rem Koolhaas's 'Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan' posits New
York as the arena for the terminal stage of Western civilisation.
Through the simultaneous explosion of human density and invasion of
new technologies, Manhattan became, from 1850 on, a mythical
laboratory for the invention and testing of a revolutionary
lifestyle: the Culture of Congestion.
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