Koolhaas Rem E A (5 results)

Super 8vo, pp. 1344; grey heavy card boards, spine & board lettered in orange & black; illus. eps, phoros, illus.; VG (light to moderate scuffing & soiling to boards; light to moderate bruising to spine & board edges & extrems; light tanning & soiling to pg edges; sl soiling to eps, prelims & terminals; light cracking to front & rear hinges). …

ISBN 3822877433 1344 p, profusely illustrated in b&w and color, 18 x 24 x 8 cm. (Orig. bound in silver faux leather with black and orange text on both boards and spine. VERY GOOD) A mammoth compendium of 20 years of OMA's projects, arranged in order of size, S,M,L,XL 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. The book combines essays, manifestoes, a cycle of meditations on the contemporary city, with work produced by Koolhaas's Office for Metropolitan Architecture over past twenty years. This accumulation of words and images illuminates the condition of architecture today - its splendors and miseries - exploring and revealing the corrosive impact of politics, context, the economy, globalization - the world (Blurb).…

Exh. cat. tent.; Rotterdam (Nederlands Architectuurinstituut) 1999; 121 pp.; exhibition catalogue focusing on the creation of a citycenter for Almere after a design by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture / Rem Koolhaas; with essays in Dutch and b/w and colour ill.; softcover [23 x 17,5 cm] ISBN 9056621319 [near] FINE COPY [Architecture / Dutch [Nederlandse Architectuur] Exhibition ].…

First edition. Stout 4to; 1344 pp.; illustrated, to say the least. A fine copy in original silver boards with black and yellow stamped type, without dust jacket, as issued.

Condition: Très bon. Rotterdam, 010 Publishers, 1995,185x238x; edited by Jennifer Sigler ; photography by Hans Werlemann.