Mutations : Rem Koolhaas, Harvard Project on the City, Stefano Boeri, Multiplicity, Sanford Kwinter, Nadia Tazi, Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Contributor(s): Koolhaas, Rem
| Boeri, Stefano | Kwinter, Sanford | Tazi, Nadia | Obrist, Hans Ulrich | Harvard Project on the City | Arc en rêve centre d architecture.
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BookPublisher: Barcelona : Bordeaux, France : ACTAR ; Arc en rêve centre d'architecture, [2000]Description: 720, [80] p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm.ISBN: 8495273519; 9788495273512; 8495273535; 9788495273536.Other title: World=city [Title on p. 4 of cover:].Subject(s): Cities and towns | Urbanization | City planning | ArchitectureDDC classification: 711.4 Also issued online.| Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Cork Centre Architectural Education Lending | 711.4 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00158494 |
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The author of "S, M, L, XL" teams up with an international group of top architects and theorists to explore the myriad ways in which the city is undergoing a series of profound transformations. Illustrations throughout. Flexi-bound.
Published on the occasion of Mutations, a cultural event on the contemporary city, presented by Arc en rêve centre d'architecture in Bordeaux, November 24, 2000-March 25, 2001.
Accompanied by 1 sound disc: Mutations : Sonic city.
Includes bibliographical references.
How to build a city -- Fragments of net-theory -- Shopping -- Photographic dossier -- PRD: Pearl River Delta -- USE: Uncertain States of Europe -- USE cases -- The American city -- Lagos.
The future of the city worldwide.
Also issued online.
UCC fund.
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Library Journal Review
This time working with a host of collaborators, architect Koolhaas, whose S, M, L, XL was that rare thing, a crossover architecture best seller, has returned with another bricklike tome. Mutations was developed in connection with Harvard Design School's Project on the City, an ongoing graduate-level analysis of "issues related to the urban condition." Year-long investigations have tackled such subjects as the impact of shopping on the city; Lagos, a massive, sprawling West African city that is highly functional despite a lack of infrastructure; and systematizing the structures and relationships in the prototypical Roman city. Results from these projects are gathered here along with a couple photo essays and short profiles of specific places from Pristina to Benelux. Interspersed throughout are a multitude of statistics about the current state and future of the city, presented in a captivating, highly graphical format. The whole does not cohere, and the reader will quickly turn to whatever is of greatest personal interest. But at the end of the day, the various views do coalesce into a portrait of powerful forces of our making but beyond our control: the modern city. As a result, this book is highly recommended for general cultural studies collections as well as all architecture/urban planning collections. Eric Bryant, "Library Journal" (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.Author notes provided by Syndetics
Rem Koolhaas is principal of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rotterdam, and the author of Delirious New York and S,M,L,XL.He is the recipient of the 2000 Pritzker Prize.
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