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Delirious New York:

a retroactive manifesto for Manhattan
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Monacelli Press, 1994 - Architecture - 317 pages
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 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)." Koolhaas interprets and reinterprets the dynamic relationship between architecture and culture in a number of telling episodes of New York's history, including the imposition of the Manhattan grid, the creation of Coney Island, and the development of the skyscraper. Delirious New York is also packed with intriguing and fun facts and illustrated with witty watercolors and quirky archival drawings, photographs, postcards, and maps. The spirit of this visionary investigation of Manhattan equals the energy of the city itself.

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Contents

Introduction
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Prehistory
13
The Technology of the Fantastic
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Copyright

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About the author (1994)

Rem Koolhaas is the internationally known architect, a founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.) in Rotterdam, and author of the critically acclaimed S,M,L,XL.

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TitleDelirious New York: a retroactive manifesto for Manhattan
Monacelli Press
AuthorRem Koolhaas
Editionreprint, illustrated
PublisherMonacelli Press, 1994
ISBN1885254008, 9781885254009
Length317 pages
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Architecture
Architecture / Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial
Architecture / Criticism
Architecture / General
Architecture / Regional
Architecture / Urban & Land Use Planning
Architecture, Modern
Architecture/ New York (State)/ New York
Art / Subjects & Themes / General
New York (N.Y.)
Travel / United States / Northeast / Middle Atlantic (NJ, NY, PA)
  
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