TY  - BOOK
AU  - Böck, Ingrid 
TI  - Six Canonical Projects by Rem Koolhaas [electronic resource]: Essays on the History of Ideas
SN  - 9783868598919
U1  - 720.1 BOC  
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Berlin : 
PB  - JOVIS Verlag GmbH
KW  - ARCHITECTURE / Individual Architects & Firms / General
N1  - Frontmatter --
TABLE OF contents --
Acknowledgments --
Introduction --
Biographical Notes --
1. Wall: exodus, or the voluntary prisoners of architecture, London 1972 --
The Wall as a Means of Division, Exclusion, and Difference --
The Ideal City and Other Models of Utopian Life --
Utopia Zero Degree, or Freedom Beyond Planning --
2. Void: Ville Nouvelle Melun-Sénart, Paris 1987 --
Failed Agencies of Modern Urbanism --
Void and Future Development --
Void as Environment of Control and Choice --
The Armature of Genericity --
3. Montage: maison à Bordeaux, France 1994-1998 --
Dismantling Modernist Fragments --
The Rational and Irrational Side of Architecture --
Montage and Filmic Reality --
4. Trajectory: Dutch Embassy, Berlin 1999-2003 --
The Trajectory as Lived Experience of the Body --
Identity and Aura, or The Trajectory as Historical Narrative --
Junkspace as the End of the Typical and the Generic --
5. Infrastructure: Public Library, Seattle 1999-2004 --
Expanding the Program of Semi-Public Space --
Infrastructure Diagrams of Circulation --
Technological Determinism and the Public Sphere --
6. Shape: CCTV, Beijing 2002-2008 --
The Outdated Typology of the Skyscraper --
Neo-Liberal Conditions of Architectural Practice --
Conclusion --
Bibliography --
Name Index --
Imprint
ER  -