Since its publication - Delirious New York (1978) has attained mythic status. Rem Koolhaas's celebration and analysis of New York depicts the city as a metaphor for the 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.

Elements of Architecture focuses on the fragments of the rich and complex architectural collage. Window, façade, balcony, corridor, fireplace, stair, escalator, elevator and toilet: the book seeks to excavate the micro-narratives of building detail. The result is no single history, but rather the web of origins, contaminations, similarities, and differences in architectural evolution, including the influence of technological advances, climatic adaptation, political calculation, economic contexts, regulatory requirements, and new digital opportunities. It's a guide that is long overdue--in Koolhaas's own words, Never was a book more relevant--at a moment where architecture as we know it is changing beyond recognition.

Derived, updated, and expanded from Koolhaas's exhaustive and much-lauded exhibition at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale, this is an essential toolkit to understanding the fundamentals that comprise structure around the globe. Designed by Irma Boom and based on research from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the 2,600-page monograph contains essays from Rem Koolhaas, Stephan Trueby, James Westcott and Stephan Petermann; interviews with Werner Sobek and Tony Fadell (of Nest); and an exclusive photo essay by Wolfgang Tillmans.

In addition to comprehensively updated texts and new images, this edition is designed and produced to visually (and physically) embody the immense scope of its subject matter:
Custom split-spine binding: our printer modified their industrial binding machine to allow for the flexible, eight-centimeter thick spine Contains a new introductory chapter with forewords, table of contents, and an index, located in the middle of the book (where it naturally opens due to its unique spine) Printed on 50g Opakal paper, allowing for the ideal level of opacity needed to realize Boom's palimpsest-like design Translucent overlays and personal annotations by Koolhaas and Boom are woven in each chapter to create an alternative, faster route through the book Printed at the originally intended 100% size for full readability

Junkspace first appeared in the Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping (2001), a vast compendium of text, images, and data concerning the consumerist transformation of city and suburb from the first department store to the latest mega mall. The architect Rem Koolhaas itemized in delirious detail how our cities are being overwhelmed. His celebrated jeremiad is updated here and twinned with Running Room, a fresh response from the cultural critic Hal Foster. Junkspace describes the bleak and featureless world of capitalism, while Running Room seeks to find a space within the junk in which the individual might still exist.

In this traditional paperback, renowned critic and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist teams up with Dutch avant-garde architect and paradigm-shifting intellectual, Rem Koolhaas, for a discussion of Koolhaas's work in China, his designs for Prada, architecture as metaphor, and the development of urbanism in the slipstream of globalization.

More than four centuries on from its first publication, discover one of the jewels of urban cartography and civic studies. This reprint includes the most enchanting color plates from the Civitates orbis terrarum, a magnificent collection of town map engravings, produced between 1572 and 1617.

Featuring plans, bird's-eye views, and maps for all major cities in Europe, plus important urban centers in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, this masterwork in urban mapping gives us a comprehensive view of city life at the turn of the 17th century. It was edited and annotated by theologian and publisher Georg Braun and largely engraved by Franz Hogenberg, but also involved over a hundred different artists and cartographers who contributed not only town views, but additional elements, such as figures in local dress, courtroom scenes, and topographical details, to help convey the situation, commercial power, and political influence of each city.

TASCHEN's reprint contextualizes the plates with selected extracts from Braun's original texts on the history and significance of each urban center as well as detailed commentaries to place each city map in its cartographical and cultural context.

La metró polis contemporá nea cuestiona nuestros valores má s profundos, o al menos aquellos a los que estamos má s apegados sentimentalmente. Por qué arquitectos, regí menes polí ticos y culturas (europeas, americanas, asiá ticas) que son completamente diferentes entre sí llegan a configuraciones similares? A travé s de temas generalmente desatendidos por los arquitectos, como la tabla rasa, el espacio basura o la congestió n, Rem Koolhaas cuestiona lo que en su momento se llamó la ciudad como un espacio ú nico para la reflexió n. Este libro recoge los ensayos dedicados a algunas ciudades con las que Koolhaas ha tenido contacto por motivos profesionales, acadé micos o biográ ficos en las dos dé cadas de plena madurez: Atlanta, Parí s, Lille, Tokio, Berlí n, Nueva York, Moscú y Londres. No se trata de escritos teó ricos, sino de un conjunto de textos coyunturales atravesados por laberí nticas remisiones internas, situados a mitad de camino entre la experiencia y la reflexió n.

This book documents the transformation of Zollverein, a disused coal mine in Essen, Germany, into a UNESCO World Heritage Site designed on the basis of a plan by Rem Koolhaas. The text and images show how design and monument preservation have turned the structure into a thriving cultural attraction.

Preservation is Overtaking Us brings together two lectures given by Rem Koolhaas at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, along with a response (framed as a supplement to the original lectures) by Jorge Otero-Pailos. In the first essay Koolhaas describes alternative strategies for preserving Beijing, China. The second talk marks the inaugural Paul Spencer Byard lecture, named in celebration of the longtime professor of Historic Preservation at GSAPP. These two lectures trace key moments of Koolhaas' thinking on preservation, including his practice's entry into China and the commission to redevelop the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. In a format well known to Koolhaas' readers, Otero-Pailos reworks the lectures into a working manifesto, using it to interrogate OMA's work from within the discipline of preservation.

Dutch architect, architectural theorist and urban thinker Rem Koolhaas
(born 1944) has been a protagonist of the international architectural
avant-garde since the 1970s; his numerous worldwide awards include the
Pritzker Prize in 2000 for his lifetime achievement. Through a series of
essays, this book interprets his many buildings and projects by drawing
on Koolhaas' own theoretical oeuvre of polemics, manifestos,
interviews, books such as Delirious New York and his so-called
design patents. In these writings, Koolhaas articulates a design
method that links theory and practice, whereby an idea is applied to
several projects over a period of time, so that it can continuously
evolve. This book not only orients this method within architectural
history, but also shows how it repositions the function of the authors
or the architects themselves.

Since the beginning of the century, the field of architecture has fervently turned its attention to documenting the contemporary urban condition. Every city has been examined as a repository of architectural concepts, scrutinized as an urban manifesto, and recorded as a series of found objects.

The Ordinary articulates a potential genealogy for this practice and for the genre of books that derived from it. Organized around conversations with the authors of three seminal texts that document the city--Rem Koolhaas on Delirious New York, Denise Scott Brown on Learning from Las Vegas, and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto on Made in Tokyo--this volume traces the history of these books on cities by examining the material they recorded, the findings they established, the arguments they advanced, and the projects they promoted. These conversations also question the assumptions underlying this practice and whether in its ubiquity it still remains a space of opportunity.

More than four centuries on from its first publication, discover one of the jewels of urban cartography and civic studies. This quality reprint includes all 363 color plates from the Civitates orbis terrarum, a magnificent collection of town map engravings, produced between 1572 and 1617.

Featuring plans, bird's-eye views, and maps for all major cities in Europe, plus important urban centers in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, this masterwork in urban mapping gives us a comprehensive view of city life at the turn of the 17th century. It was edited and annotated by theologian and publisher Georg Braun and largely engraved by Franz Hogenberg, but also involved over a hundred different artists and cartographers who contributed not only town views, but additional elements, such as figures in local dress, courtroom scenes, and topographical details, to help convey the situation, commercial power, and political influence of each city.

TASCHEN's reprint contextualizes the plates with selected extracts from Braun's original texts on the history and significance of each urban center, as well as detailed commentaries to place each city map in its cartographical and cultural context.

A first version of this text appeared in the Italian magazine Domus in October 1994 before it was included in Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau's book S, M, L, XL. Still, this theory of grandeur began to be formulated in Delirious New York. Several years later, OMA entered three large competitions--the Zeebrugge Sea Terminal, the National Library of France, and the ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe--that embodied the theoretical principles of grandeur: autonomy in each part of the building, the liberatory potential of the elevator, and independence between interior and exterior.

Este ensayo hace un recorrido histórico por el significado que han ido adquiriendo los caminos y las carreteras como parte del entorno humano construido hasta convertirse en el elemento capital de las infraestructuras modernas que son hoy en día. Con una escritura aguda y concisa, John Brinckerhoff Jackson ha servido de guía a varias generaciones de lectores para generar una conciencia nueva sobre los entornos cotidianos como importantes crisoles de significado cultural, y ha arrojado luz sobre las fuerzas que han ido conformando el territorio estadounidense. Las preguntas planteadas en este ensayo van dirigidas a quienes utilizan las sendas, los caminos y las carreteras, y remite al sentido que cobran los lugares que atraviesan.

More than four centuries on from its first publication, discover one of the jewels of urban cartography and civic studies. This quality reprint includes all 363 color plates from the Civitates orbis terrarum, a magnificent collection of town map engravings, produced between 1572 and 1617.

Featuring plans, bird's-eye views, and maps for all major cities in Europe, plus important urban centers in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, this masterwork in urban mapping gives us a comprehensive view of city life at the turn of the 17th century. It was edited and annotated by theologian and publisher Georg Braun and largely engraved by Franz Hogenberg, but also involved over a hundred different artists and cartographers who contributed not only town views, but additional elements, such as figures in local dress, courtroom scenes, and topographical details, to help convey the situation, commercial power, and political influence of each city.

TASCHEN's reprint contextualizes the plates with selected extracts from Braun's original texts on the history and significance of each urban center, as well as detailed commentaries to place each city map in its cartographical and cultural context.

Located close to the antipodes of the country that gave birth to the modern project, Singapore is a surprisingly triumphant champion of modern housing strategy. Perhaps as the result of the combination of Asian authoritarianism and mentality, this southeast Asian island and city-state has the mechanistic and rationalist program of modernity. In this book, Rem Koolhaas documents Singapore's urban renewal since Lee Kuan Yew began heading the former British colony's first autonomous government in 1959 and initiated development on the island according to UN recommendations. Singapore's trajectory was not unique, but rather became an archetypal pattern that could soon be seen throughout Asia.

​Situada casi en las antípodas del escenario que dio origen al proyecto moderno, Singapur se erige sorprendentemente como adalid triunfante de la estrategia de la vivienda moderna. Quizás por la confluencia con el autoritarismo y la mentalidad asiáticos, esta isla y ciudad-estado del sureste asiático ha adoptado sin escrúpulos el programa mecanicista y racionalista de la modernidad hasta configurar una demoledora 'metrópolis potemkin'. Rem Koolhaas narra en este libro la crónica de la renovación urbana de Singapur desde que Lee Kuan Yew tomara en 1959 las riendas del primer gobierno autónomo de la ex colonia británica y emprendiera el proyecto de desarrollo de la isla auspiciado por las recomendaciones de la ONU. Un proyecto que pasó por hacer tabla rasa de las preexistencias y cuyo programa gubernamental fue acompañado de encuentros y desencuentros con el colectivo arquitectónico, como el movimiento metabolista representado por figuras como Fumihiko Maki o la intelectualidad de Singapur agrupada en el Singapore Planning and Urban Research (SPUR). Tildada posteriormente de 'caricatura repulsiva' y 'orgía de vulgaridad eurasiática', la experiencia de Singapur, sin embargo, no fue excepcional, sino que se configuró como un patrón arquetípico que, como apuntó Koolhaas en este ensayo premonitorio, estaba preparado para extenderse por toda Asia: 'Su modelo será el sello de la modernización de China. Y dos mil millones de personas no pueden estar equivocadas'.

More than four centuries on from its first publication, discover one of the jewels of urban cartography and civic studies. This reprint includes the most enchanting color plates from the Civitates orbis terrarum, a magnificent collection of town map engravings, produced between 1572 and 1617.

Featuring plans, bird's-eye views, and maps for all major cities in Europe, plus important urban centers in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, this masterwork in urban mapping gives us a comprehensive view of city life at the turn of the 17th century. It was edited and annotated by theologian and publisher Georg Braun and largely engraved by Franz Hogenberg, but also involved over a hundred different artists and cartographers who contributed not only town views, but additional elements, such as figures in local dress, courtroom scenes, and topographical details, to help convey the situation, commercial power, and political influence of each city.

TASCHEN's reprint contextualizes the plates with selected extracts from Braun's original texts on the history and significance of each urban center as well as detailed commentaries to place each city map in its cartographical and cultural context.