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Description
Koolhaas, Dutch architect, author (Delirious New York) and cult figure, wants architecture to be 'a
chaotic adventure,' and this massive tome certainly is. Created with Toronto-based designer Mau,
it's a huge collage splicing freewheeling essays, diary excerpts, photographs, architectural plans,
sketches, cartoons and surreal montages of images. There's also a running glossary of Zen-like
definitions, plus fables and parables intended to shake modern architects out of conventional
thinking and to dispel urban despair. In one essay, Koolhaas admires Japan's metabolist
movement, which fuses organic, scientific, mechanistic and romantic vocabularies. That approach
seems compatible with his own innovative, eclectic vision as head of the Dutch firm Office of
Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.), whose houses, villas, office towers, libraries, colleges, cultural
complexes and other projects are showcased here. While some readers may be mystified by a
nonlinear hodgepodge, architects, planners and designers will find this frequently outrageous
assemblage a provocative repository of ideas. Author tour. Copyright 1996 Reed Business
Information, Inc. Read more 'A brick of a book ... This book tells a tale, a great contemporary
architectural odyssey-the story of how this architect came to think big.' Read more See all Editorial
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