Junkspace with Running room / Rem Koolhaas, Hal Foster.
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TextPublication details: London : Notting Hill Editions, 2013. Edition: 1st edDescription: xi, 78 p. ; 19 cmISBN: 9781907903762Subject(s): ArchitectureLOC classification: NA2560 | .K665 2013Abstract: "In Junkspace (2001), architect Rem Koolhaas itemised in delirious detail how our cities are being overwhelmed. His celebrated jeremiad is here updated and twinned with Running Room, a fresh response from architectural critic Hal Foster. 'The manifesto is a modernist mode, one that looks to the future ... Junkspace makes no such claim: "Architecture disappeared in the twentieth century," states Koolhaas matter-of-factly. Junkspace does a harder thing: it "foretells" the present, which is to say that it calls on us to recognize what is already everywhere around us.' - Hal Foster Is there a future for architecture? If so, it might begin with the meditations--by turns elegant and frantic--of Rem Koolhaas and Hal Foster: 'even if there is no outside to Junkspace, there is still running room to be made in its cracks
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"In Junkspace (2001), architect Rem Koolhaas itemised in delirious detail how our cities are being overwhelmed. His celebrated jeremiad is here updated and twinned with Running Room, a fresh response from architectural critic Hal Foster. 'The manifesto is a modernist mode, one that looks to the future ... Junkspace makes no such claim: "Architecture disappeared in the twentieth century," states Koolhaas matter-of-factly. Junkspace does a harder thing: it "foretells" the present, which is to say that it calls on us to recognize what is already everywhere around us.' - Hal Foster Is there a future for architecture? If so, it might begin with the meditations--by turns elegant and frantic--of Rem Koolhaas and Hal Foster: 'even if there is no outside to Junkspace, there is still running room to be made in its cracks
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