Delirious New York a retroactive manifesto for Manhattan 1st edition by Rem Koolhaas 1885254008 ‎978-1885254009

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ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1885254008

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1885254009

Author: Rem Koolhaas

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.

Delirious New York a retroactive manifesto for Manhattan 1st Table of contents:

• Prehistory
• Coney Island: the technology of the fantastic
• The double life of Utopia: the skyscraper.
• The frontier in the sky ;
• The skyscraper theorists ; 
• The lives of a block: the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and the Empire State Building ;
• Definitive instability: the Downtown Athletic Club
• How perfect perfection can be:
• the creation of Rockefeller Center. 
• The talents of Raymond Hood ; 
• All the Rockefeller Centers ;
• Radio City Music Hall: the fun never sets ;
• Kremlin on Fifth Avenue ;
• 2 Postscripts
• Europeans: Biuer! Dalí and Le Corbusier conquer New York
• Postmortem.

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