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This lovely and informative 264 page book traces the history of Manhattan from 1850 when it became a "mythical laboratory for the invention and testing of a revolutionary lifestyle: the 'Culture of Congestion.' [This book] is a polemical investigation of that Manhattan; it documents the symbiotic relationship between its mutant metropolitan culture and the unique architecture to which it gave rise. [This book] exposes the consistency and coherence of the seemingly unrelated episodes of Manhattan's urbanism; it is an interpretation that establishes Manhattan as the product of an unformulated movement, 'Manhattanism', whose true program was so outrageous that in order for it to be realized, it could never be openly declared. 'Delirious in New York' is the retroactive manifesto of Manhattan's architectural enterprise; it untangles the theories, tactics and dissimulations that allowed New York's architects to establish the desires of Manhattan's collective unconscious as realities in the Grid. It proves above all, that Manhattan has been, from the beginning, devoted to the most rational, efficient and utilitarian pursuit of the irrational. In this vision Coney Island becomes an embryonic Manhattan, testbed of a Technology of the Fantastic, the Skyscraper a self-contained universe, Manhattan a man-made archipelago of architectural islands, Rockefeller Center the first and last fragment of a definitive Manhattan. The decline of this movement sets in with the European Modernist Blitzkrieg unleashed by Le Corbusier in the mid-thirties. An appendix presents a series of projects that announce the 'second coming' of Manhattanism, this time as an explicit doctrine that can claim its place among contemporary urbanisms. An impressive documentation of original materials and unpublished projects provides the evidence for this architectural manifesto, which reads, in its insistent tracing of subconscious clues and themes, like a psychological thriller."
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date1978
- ISBN 10 0195200357
- ISBN 13 9780195200355
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages263
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First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 263 pages. The first book from this important and influential architect. Includes numerous color and black and white illustrations and images. A clean near fine copy with some very minute wear and in a very near fine dust jacket with a small tear to the base of the front panel and some other very minute wear. A much nicer than usual copy of this classic. Seller Inventory # 198704
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Hardcover with dustjacket, 264 pages; good condition; the dj has multiple large tears and pieces missing at top and bottom edges; light stain to top and bottom edges of last few pages; dated Nov 22 1978, warmly inscribed to "Dick", and signed by "Rem" on first page within the lines of the streets in the illustration. This copy from the library of Richard and Suzanne Frank who were the clients of Eisenman's House VI in Cornwall CT. Foreign shipping may be extra. Seller Inventory # DeKoOx1250
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 4to. Oxford University Press. 1978. 263 pgs. Illustrated. First Edition/First Printing. Signed by Rem Koolhaas on the FFEP. DJ has some light chipping to the top of the DJ spine and near the corners. Previous owner's name present to the reverse of the front board. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards clean with no wear present. Since its original publication in 1978, Delirious New York has attained mythic status. Back in print in a newly designed edition, this influential cultural, architectural, and social history of New York is even more popular, selling out its first printing on publication. Rem Koolhaas's celebration and analysis of New York depicts the city as a metaphor for the incredible 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. E-145; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 263 pages; Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # 54085
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