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Delirious New York
Rem Koolhaas
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Description for Delirious New York
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 200 illustrations, 25 in colour. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AM; HBTB; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 185 x 22. Weight in Grams: 966.
Since its original publication in 1978, Delirious New York has attained mythic status. Back in print in a newly designed edition, this influential cultural, architectural, and social history of New York is even more popular, selling out its first printing on publication. Rem Koolhaas's celebration and analysis of New York depicts the city as a metaphor for the incredible variety of human behavior. At the end of the nineteenth century, population, information, and technology explosions made Manhattan a laboratory for the invention and testing of a metropolitan lifestyle -- "the culture of congestion" -- and its architecture."Manhattan," he writes, "is ... Read more
Since its original publication in 1978, Delirious New York has attained mythic status. Back in print in a newly designed edition, this influential cultural, architectural, and social history of New York is even more popular, selling out its first printing on publication. Rem Koolhaas's celebration and analysis of New York depicts the city as a metaphor for the incredible variety of human behavior. At the end of the nineteenth century, population, information, and technology explosions made Manhattan a laboratory for the invention and testing of a metropolitan lifestyle -- "the culture of congestion" -- and its architecture."Manhattan," he writes, "is ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Monacelli Press United States
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781885254009
SKU
V9781885254009
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99-5
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