Delirious New York
KOOLHAAS, REM. Delirious New York. 263 pp. text well illustrated in b&w and color. 4to, cloth and dust jacket. New York, Oxford University Press, 1978. $1250.00
First edition, signed by Koolhaas . A very good copy of this '"Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan". "Manhattan is the arena of the terminal stage of Western Civilization: Through the simultaneous explosion of human destiny and an invasion of new technologies, Manhattan became, from 1850, a mythical laboratory for the invention and testing of a revolutionary lifestyle: the 'culture of congestion'. Delirious New York is a polemical investigation of that Manhattan; it documents the symbiotic relationship between its mutant metropolitan culture and the unique architecture to which it gave rise. Though this book argues that it often appears that the architectural generated the culture". "Manhattan, Koolhaas writes, "is the 20th century's Rosetta stone . . . occupied by architectural mutations (Central Park, the Skyscraper), utopian fragments (Rockefeller Center, the U.N. Building), and irrational phenomena (Radio City Music Hall)." One of the great architectural classics of the second half of the 20th century. Scarce first edition, in larger format. Jacket is worn with some loss, but still largely intact.
Item nr. 166656
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$1,250.00