TY  - BOOK
AU  - Koolhaas, Rem 
AU  - Mau, Bruce 
TI  - S, M, L, XL
SN  - 9781885254863
U1  - ARCH 
PY  - 1997///
CY  - New York
PB  - The Monacelli Press
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Art monograph
KW  - City planning
KW  - Individual artists
KW  - Photographs
KW  - Public buildings
N1  - S,M,L,XL presents a selection of the remarkable visionary design work produced by the Dutch firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.) and its acclaimed founder, Rem Koolhaas, in its first twenty years, along with a variety of insightful, often poetic writings. The inventive collaboration between Koolhaas and designer Bruce Mau is a graphic overture that weaves together architectural projects, photos and sketches, diary excerpts, personal travelogues, fairy tales, and fables, as well as critical essays on contemporary architecture and society. The book's title is also its framework: projects and essays are arranged according to scale. While Small and Medium address issues ranging from the domestic to the public, Large focuses on what Koolhaas calls "the architecture of Bigness." Extra-Large features projects at the urban scale, along with the important essay "What Ever Happened to Urbanism?" and other studies of the contemporary city. Running throughout the book is a "dictionary" of an adventurous new Koolhaasian language -- definitions, commentaries, and quotes from hundreds of literary, cultural, artistic, and architectural sources
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