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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 Reviews