Research Catalog

Title

Small, medium, large, extra-large : Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rem Koolhaas, and Bruce Mau / edited by Jennifer Sigler ; photography by Hans Werlemann.

Publication

New York, N.Y. : Monacelli Press, ©1995.

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Additional Authors

• Koolhaas, Rem.
• Mau, Bruce.
• Sigler, Jennifer.
• Werlemann, Hans.
• Office for Metropolitan Architecture.

Description

xxxi, 1,344 pages : illustrations (some color); 24 cm

Summary

• "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."--PUBLISHER.
• "Rem Koolhaas is founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.); the firm's most important projects include the Lille Grand Palais in Lille; the Kunsthal in Rotterdam; Netherlands Dance Theatre in The Hague; Nexus Housing in Fukuoka; the Dutch House in Holland; and Villa dall'Ava in Paris, all of which are included in S, M, L, XL. Koolhaas is author of the seminal Delirious New York and professor in practice of architecture and urban design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Bruce Mau founded the critically acclaimed firm Bruce Mau Design in 1985. He is the author of Life Style and Massive Change."--PUBLISHER.

Alternative Title

• Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rem Koolhaas, and Bruce Mau
• S, M, L, XL
• O.M.A., Rem Koolhaas, and Bruce Mau

Subjects

• Architecture, Modern
• Mau, Bruce
• Office for Metropolitan Architecture
• Architecture, Modern > 20th century
• City planning
• 1900-1999
• Koolhaas, Rem

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 1284-1299).

Contents

OMA Charts -- Exodus, or the Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture: AA Final Project, 1972 -- Delirious New York: Appendix, 1978 -- Less is More: Installation for the 1986 Milan Triennale, Italy, 1985 -- The House That Made Mies: Theory, 1993 -- Dutch Section: House for Two Friends, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1988 -- [actual symbol not reproducible]13,000 Points: Nexus World Housing, Fukuoka, Japan, 1991 -- Learning Japanese: Poem, 1993 -- Worth a Detour: Renovation of Hotel Furka Blick, Switzerland, 1991 -- Obstacles: Villa Dall'Ava, St. Cloud, Paris, France, 1991 -- Only 90[degree], Please: Video Bus Stop, Groningen, Netherlands, 1991 -- Imagining Nothingness: Text, 1985 -- The Terrifying Beauty of the Twentieth Century: Text, 1985 -- Field Trip: (A)A Memoir: The Berlin Wall as Architecture, 1993 -- Revision: Renovation of a Panopticon Prison, Arnhem, Netherlands, 1979-81 -- Shipwrecked: Housing Kochstrasse/Friedrichstrasse, Berlin, Germany, 1980.

Call Number

JQE 18-703

ISBN

• 1885254016
• 9781885254016
• 1885254865
• 9781885254863
• 9064502102
• 9789064502101

LCCN

94076578

OCLC

34225456

Title

Small, medium, large, extra-large : Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rem Koolhaas, and Bruce Mau / edited by Jennifer Sigler ; photography by Hans Werlemann.

Imprint

New York, N.Y. : Monacelli Press, ©1995.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 1284-1299).

Connect to:

Table of contents

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Koolhaas, Rem.

Mau, Bruce.

Sigler, Jennifer.

Werlemann, Hans.

Office for Metropolitan Architecture.

Cover Title

S, M, L, XL

Other Form:

Online version: Small, medium, large, extra-large. New York, N.Y. : Monacelli Press, ©1995 (OCoLC)649498779

Research Call Number

JQE 18-703