Content
Die Arbeit von Rem Koolhaas und OMA-AMO
Like its predecessor, Content provides a rare view to the creative processes of one of architecture`s most famous firms. Though it offers the fullness of a book, Content has the format and tone of a magazine. Like a magazine, it contains articles by outside contributors, including journalists, medical writers, and cultural critics. Envisioned as a non-profit enterprise by TASCHEN and OMA-AMO, Content is being sold at the lowest price possible (€9.99, $14.99, £6.99, ¥1900). In order to cover production costs and provide a more authentic magazine feel, the book contains paid advertising.
In its mood and subject matter, Content reflects recent shifts in geo-politics, particularly since 9-11. The book`s content follows Koolhaas`s expanding interests, mixing architecture with politics, history, technology, and sociology. Its subjects are diverse: Martha Stewart is interviewed in one section; the history of African communist radio is charted in another. An anthropological study of subcultures in Germany`s Ruhr Valley is followed by proposals for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. Topics are arranged according to geography: the book begins in San Francisco and travels eastwards, finally ending in Tokyo. On the way, time is spent in Brazil, Nigeria, Portugal, Russia, and China, among other places.
At a time when the profession is growing increasingly introverted, Content reconnects architecture with the outside world.
About the editors:
Rem Koolhaas is a co-founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture. Having worked as a journalist and script writer before becoming an architect, in 1978 he published Delirious New York, a retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan. In 1995, his book S,M,L,XL summarized the work of OMA and established connections of contemporary society and architecture. Amongst many international awards and exhibitions he received the Pritzker Prize (2000) and the Praemium Imperiale (2003).
Brendan McGetrick is a writer and editor from the United States. Before starting Content, he collaborated with Rem Koolhaas and AMO on a special issue of Wired magazine. He is a regular contributor to several magazines and is currently working on a new book about record collecting.
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Content
Koolhaas, Rem / OMA (Editor)
Softcover, 17 x 22.5 cm (6.7 x 8.9 in.), 544 pages $ 14.99 ISBN: 978-3-8228-3070-3 Multilingual Edition: English, French, German Availability: Not in Stock |
- Reviews (65 items)
"Content, like his (Rem Koolhaas) buildings, is rather more than data - it's a narrative retrovirus designed to inject an alt.( )..an easily consumed dude-polemic, rather like his sardonic declaration that mankind has entered its terminal condition-shopping. But the discourse can't just be wolfed down like a doner kebab, after all; it resists simple digestion, because it is packed with overlapping subjects and event horizons."
The Independent, London, United Kingdom
The Independent, London, United Kingdom
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Mitä missä milloin -vuosikirja 2004
Arkkitehti, Finland, October 01, 2005
Arkkitehti, Finland, October 01, 2005