Six Canonical Projects by Rem Koolhaas

Titel: Six Canonical Projects by Rem Koolhaas
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Veröffentlicht: [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : jovis Verlag, 2015
Umfang: 1 electronic resource (370 Seiten p.)
Format: E-Book
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN: 9783868592191
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  • Acknowledgments
  • p. 8
  • Introduction
  • p. 9
  • Biographical Notes
  • p. 25
  • 1
  • Wall: Exodus, or the Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture, London 1972
  • p. 31
  • The Walt as a Means of Division, Exclusion, and Difference
  • p. 33
  • Good Half and Bad Half of the City: Exodus, or The Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture
  • p. 33
  • Decision-Making and the Authority of the Plan
  • p. 42
  • Somatology and the Fictitious Entity of the Prison
  • p. 49
  • Deterministic Form and Flexibility
  • p. 52
  • Delimiting the World and Enabling Difference
  • p. 57
  • Taking Place and the Sacred Nature of City Walls
  • p. 59
  • The Ideal City and Other Models of Utopian Life
  • p. 63
  • The Closed and the Open Society as Ideal Worlds
  • p. 63
  • Nova Insula Utopia, or The Nowhere Place
  • p. 66
  • Urban Vacancy and the Disappearance of Public Space
  • p. 68
  • Reinventing Utopia, or Daily Life Beyond Necessity
  • p. 70
  • Utopia Zero Degree, or Freedom Beyond Planning
  • p. 73
  • The Manhattan Skyscraper as Utopia Zero Degree
  • p. 73
  • The City as Script and Social Condenser
  • p. 76
  • Amplifying the Program within Structures of Control
  • p. 80
  • The Wall as a Means of Freedom Beyond Planning
  • p. 82
  • 2
  • Void: Ville Nouvelle Melun-Sénart, Paris 1987
  • p. 87
  • Failed Agencies of Modern Urbanism
  • p. 89
  • Planning Makes No Difference
  • p. 89
  • Chaos and Nothingness: Ville Nouvelle Melun-Sénart
  • p. 91
  • Metropolis and Disorder, or The City Without Qualities
  • p. 99
  • Void and Future Development
  • p. 105
  • The Watertight Formula of the Modern City
  • p. 105
  • Tabula Rasa and Prospective Preservation
  • p. 109
  • The Grid as Field of Projection
  • p. 112
  • Void as Environment of Control and Choice
  • p. 116
  • Infrastructure and Kit-of-Parts Architecture
  • p. 116
  • Experiments of the Non-Plan and the Unhouse
  • p. 119
  • The City as Social Work of Art
  • p. 122
  • The Armature of Genericity
  • p. 125
  • Critical Theory and the Architect's Status
  • p. 125
  • The End of the Dialectic City
  • p. 129
  • The Operating System of the Roma Quadrats
  • p. 131
  • City Planning and Bricolage Technique
  • p. 135
  • 3
  • Montage: Maison À Bordeaux, France 1994-1998
  • p. 139
  • Dismantling Modernist Fragments
  • p. 141
  • The Armature of Modernism: The Maison à Bordeaux
  • p. 141
  • Architectural Promenade and Sequential Perception
  • p. 144
  • Dismantlement and Disappearance
  • p. 151
  • Between Modernist and Surrealist Ideas
  • p. 157
  • Transgression and the Accursed Share in Architecture
  • p. 165
  • The Rational and Irrational Side of Architecture
  • p. 168
  • Architecture as Paranoid Critical Activity
  • p. 168
  • Maritime Analogy
  • p. 171
  • Un Cadavre Exquis
  • p. 175
  • Metaphoric Planning and the Skyscraper Diagram
  • p. 177
  • Montage and Filmic Reality
  • p. 181
  • The Metropolis as Manifesto of Modem Life
  • p. 181
  • Inventing Reality through Writing
  • p. 185
  • Post-Structuralist Theory, or The Whole, Real, There
  • p. 189
  • Montage and Creative History
  • p. 193
  • 4
  • Trajectory: Dutch Embassy, Berlin 1999-2003
  • p. 199
  • The Trajectory as Lived Experience of the Body
  • p. 201
  • The Wail and the Cube: The Dutch Embassy in Berlin
  • p. 201
  • The Pliable Surface as Inside-Out City
  • p. 208
  • The Car as Modernist Sign of Motion and Lived Experience
  • p. 215
  • Psychogeographic Mapping of the City
  • p. 217
  • Architecture as Event, Transcript, and Folie
  • p. 222
  • Identity and Aura, or The Trajectory as Historical Narrative
  • p. 227
  • Historical Aura as Source of Identity
  • p. 227
  • Displacement, Appropriation, and Erasure of Identity
  • p. 232
  • Projecting National Identity, or The Typical and the Unique
  • p. 235
  • The Dioscuri Motif, or Standardization and Individuality
  • p. 237
  • Junkspace as the End of the Typical and the Generic
  • p. 241
  • The Typical and the Generic
  • p. 241
  • Junkspace as Dérive
  • p. 245
  • Generic versus Brand
  • p. 248
  • Typology and Flexibility, or Frame for Change
  • p. 253
  • TheTrajectory as Diagram of Performance
  • p. 255
  • 5
  • Infrastructure: Public Library, Seattle 1999-2004
  • p. 261
  • Expanding the Program of Semi-Public Space
  • p. 263
  • Structures for Non-Specific Events
  • p. 263
  • The Diagrammatic Section: The Seattle Public Library
  • p. 267
  • Stable and Unstable Zones, or The Event-Structure of Semi-Public Space
  • p. 273
  • Infrastructure Diagrams of Circulation
  • p. 277
  • The Dialectic between Needle and Globe Structure
  • p. 277
  • The Elevator as a Diagram of Discontinuity
  • p. 283
  • The Escalator as a Diagram of Continuity and Circulation
  • p. 288
  • Shopping and the Public Sphere
  • p. 291
  • Technological Determinism and the Public Sphere
  • p. 294
  • The Technological Sublime as Social Event
  • p. 294
  • Infrastructural Techno-Utopias
  • p. 298
  • Public Space as "Air-Conditioning Project"
  • p. 300
  • 6
  • Shape: CCTV, Beijing 2002-2008
  • p. 305
  • The Outdated Typology of the Skyscraper
  • p. 307
  • An Adaptive Species: The CCTV Building in Beijing
  • p. 307
  • New Typologies of the City
  • p. 310
  • Shape as Content and Container
  • p. 315
  • Neo-Liberal Conditions of Architectural Practice
  • p. 317
  • Plasticity, or The Dialectic between Form and Shape
  • p. 317
  • Post-Criticality
  • p. 321
  • Originality and the Avant-Garde
  • p. 324
  • Conclusion
  • p. 329
  • Bibliography
  • p. 338
  • Name Index
  • p. 355
  • Imprint
  • p. 368