Six Canonical Projects by Rem Koolhaas
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
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1. Wall: Exodus, or the Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture, London 1972
The Wall as a Means of Division, Exclusion, and Difference
Good Half and Bad Half of the City: Exodus, or The Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture
Decision-Making and the Authority of the Plan
Somatology and the Fictitious Entity of the Prison
Deterministic Form and Flexibility
Delimiting the World and Enabling Difference
Taking Place and the Sacred Nature of City Walls
The Ideal City and Other Models of Utopian Life
The Closed and the Open Society as Ideal Worlds
Nova Insula Utopia, or The Nowhere Place
Urban Vacancy and the Disappearance of Public Space
Reinventing Utopia, or Daily Life Beyond Necessity
Utopia Zero Degree, or Freedom Beyond Planning
The Manhattan Skyscraper as Utopia Zero Degree
The City as Script and Social Condenser
Amplifying the Program within Structures of Control
The Wall as a Means of Freedom Beyond Planning
2. Void: Ville Nouvelle Melun-Sénart, Paris 1987
Failed Agencies of Modern Urbanism
Planning Makes No Difference
Chaos and Nothingness: Ville Nouvelle Melun-Sénart
Metropolis and Disorder, or The City Without Qualities
Void and Future Development
The Watertight Formula of the Modern City
Tabula Rasa and Prospective Preservation
The Grid as Field of Projection
Void as Environment of Control and Choice
Infrastructure and Kit-of-Parts Architecture
Experiments of the Non-Plan and the Unhouse
The City as Social Work of Art
The Armature of Genericity
Critical Theory and the Architect’s Status
The End of the Dialectic City
The Operating System of the Roma Quadrata
City Planning and Bricolage Technique
3. Montage: Maison à Bordeaux, France 1994–1998
Dismantling Modernist Fragments
The Armature of Modernism: The Maison à Bordeaux
Architectural Promenade and Sequential Perception
Dismantlement and Disappearance
Between Modernist and Surrealist Ideas
Transgression and the Accursed Share in Architecture
The Rational and Irrational Side of Architecture
Architecture as Paranoid Critical Activity
Maritime Analogy
Un Cadavre Exquis
Metaphoric Planning and the Skyscraper Diagram
Montage and Filmic Reality
The Metropolis as Manifesto of Modern Life
Inventing Reality through Writing
Post-Structuralist Theory, or The Whole, Real, There
Montage and Creative History
4. Trajectory: Dutch Embassy, Berlin 1999–2003
The Trajectory as Lived Experience of the Body
The Wall and the Cube: The Dutch Embassy in Berlin
The Pliable Surface as Inside-Out City
The Car as Modernist Sign of Motion and Lived Experience
Psychogeographic Mapping of the City
Architecture as Event, Transcript, and Folie
Identity and Aura, or the Trajectory as Historical Narrative
Historical Aura as Source of Identity
Displacement, Appropriation, and Erasure of Identity
Projecting National Identity, or The Typical and the Unique
The Dioscuri Motif, or Standardization and Individuality
Junkspace as the End of the Typical and the Generic
The Typical and the Generic
Junkspace as Dérive
Generic versus Brand
Typology and Flexibility, or Frame for Change
The Trajectory as Diagram of Performance
5. Infrastructure: Public Library, Seattle 1999–2004
Expanding the Program of Semi-Public Space
Structures for Non-Specific Events
The Diagrammatic Section: The Seattle Public Library
Stable and Unstable Zones, or The Event-Structure of Semi-Public Space
Infrastructure Diagrams of Circulation
The Dialectic between Needle and Globe Structure
The Elevator as a Diagram of Discontinuity
The Escalator as a Diagram of Continuity and Circulation
Shopping and the Public Sphere
Technological Determinism and the Public Sphere
The Technological Sublime as Social Event
Infrastructural Techno-Utopias
Public Space as “Air-Conditioning Project”
6. Shape: CCTV, Beijing 2002–2008
The Outdated Typology of the Skyscraper
An Adaptive Species: The CCTV Building in Beijing
New Typologies of the City
Shape as Content and Container
Neo-liberal Conditions of Architectural Practice
Plasticity, or The Dialectic between Form and Shape
Post-Criticality
Originality and the Avant-Garde
Conclusion
Bibliography
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