delirious new york von koolhaas, Gebraucht (16 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. 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. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Heavy book may require extra postage unless posted within South Africa. The wraps are a little shelf rubbed and edge worn. Internally, there are no markings or inscriptions, and the pages are immaculately clean and complete. The binding is excellent. GK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

paperback. Zustand: Gut. 328 Seiten; 9783931435004.3 Gewicht in Gramm: 1.

Paperback, 23,7 x 18,4 cm., 318 pp. Illustrated throughout in colour and black/white. VG.

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.

Rotterdam, 010 Publ., 1994. 23,7 : 18,4 cm. 318 S. mit teils farb. Abb. Illustr. OKart. Tadelloses Exemplar. Sprache: en.

Orig cloth, dustjacket.29 x 23 cm, 263 pp, with 303 illustrations, 37 in colour. First edition. A very good tightly bound copy in a well preserved pictorial dust wrapper, text is clean and free of markings. On the first small decent name.

Oxford University Press. 1978. Paperback / Softcover. 28,8 x 23,5 cm. With illustrations in color and b/w. 263 pages. bottom right corner of the back cobver damaged else a NEAR FINE COPY [Architecture / international ].

[London], Thames and Hudson, [1978]. 263 pp. 303 ills. (37 in col.). Orig. hardcover (boards), d.j. 4to. - Dust jacket sl. worn / sl. dam. along the edges; edges op pages seriously foxed.First English edition.

KOOLHAAS, REM. Delirious New York. 263 pp. text well illustrated in b&w and color. 4to, cloth and dust jacket. New York, Oxford University Press, 1978. 166656 $1250.00 First edition, signed by Koolhaas . A very good copy of this '"Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan". "Manhattan is the arena of the terminal stage of Western Civilization: Through the simultaneous explosion of human destiny and an invasion of new technologies, Manhattan became, from 1850, a mythical laboratory for the invention and testing of a revolutionary lifestyle: the 'culture of congestion'. Delirious New York 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. Though this book argues that it often appears that the architectural generated the culture". "Manhattan, Koolhaas 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)." One of the great architectural classics of the second half of the 20th century. Scarce first edition, in larger format. Jacket is worn with some loss, but still largely intact.

Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good+. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by Rem Koolhaas on the half title page in 2011. Bound in publisher's pink cloth-covered boards with titles stamped in black. Near Fine, with bumping to corners, and light fading to cloth at edges. In a Very Good+ dust jacket with price intact, light fraying at the edges and several tape reinforcements made to the verso, and a slight waviness to the rear panel. A lovely copy of Koolaas' important architectural, cultural and social analysis of New York, signed.