1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910563175903321

Autore

Böck Ingrid

Titolo

Six canonical projects by Rem Koolhaas : essays on the history of ideas / / Ingrid Böck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

jovis Verlag, 2015

Berlin : , : Jovis, , 2015

ISBN

3-86859-891-X

3-86859-892-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (393 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Architektur + Analyse ; ; 5

Disciplina

720.92

Soggetti

Architecture, Modern - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Biographical Notes -- 1. Wall: exodus, or the voluntary prisoners of architecture, London 1972 -- The Wall as a Means of Division, Exclusion, and Difference -- The Ideal City and Other Models of Utopian Life -- Utopia Zero Degree, or Freedom Beyond Planning -- 2. Void: Ville Nouvelle Melun-Sénart, Paris 1987 -- Failed Agencies of Modern Urbanism -- Void and Future Development -- Void as Environment of Control and Choice -- The Armature of Genericity -- 3. Montage: maison à Bordeaux, France 1994–1998 -- Dismantling Modernist Fragments -- The Rational and Irrational Side of Architecture -- Montage and Filmic Reality -- 4. Trajectory: Dutch Embassy, Berlin 1999–2003 -- The Trajectory as Lived Experience of the Body -- Identity and Aura, or The Trajectory as Historical Narrative -- Junkspace as the End of the Typical and the Generic -- 5. Infrastructure: Public Library, Seattle 1999–2004 -- Expanding the Program of Semi-Public Space -- Infrastructure Diagrams of Circulation -- Technological Determinism and the Public Sphere -- 6. Shape: CCTV, Beijing 2002–2008 -- The Outdated Typology of the Skyscraper -- Neo-Liberal Conditions of Architectural Practice -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Imprint

Sommario/riassunto

This book builds on six canonical Koolhaas projects, tracing the discursive practice behind the design methods used by Koolhaas and



his office OMA.

2.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00421990

Autore

JACOB, Max

Titolo

Choix de Lettres de Max Jacob a Jean Cocteau 1919-1944 / par Max Jacob

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[s.l.], : Morihien, 1949

Descrizione fisica

158 p. ; 18 cm.

Disciplina

840.9

Lingua di pubblicazione

Francese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia