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020			_a9781885254863
082			_aARCH _bKOO
100			_aKoolhaas, Rem
245		0	_aS, M, L, XL
260			_aNew York _bThe Monacelli Press _c1997
300			_a1376 _c‎ 7.2 x 2.83 x 9.3 inches _rHardbound
504			_aS,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.
650			_aArchitecture
650			_aArt monograph
650			_aCity planning
650			_aIndividual artists
650			_aPhotographs
650			_aPublic buildings
700			_aMau, Bruce _eCo-author
942			_cBKS
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