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Great Leap Forward
Great Leap Forward / Harvard Design School Project on the City
Edited by: Chuihua Judy Chung, Jeffrey Inaba, Rem Koolhaas, Sze Tsung Leong
In 1996-97, Harvard's graduate students studied China's Pearl River Delta (PRD), a cluster of five cities with a population of twelve million that will probably reach thirty-six million by the year 2020. The establishment in the PRD of Special Economic Zones - "laboratories for the contained unleashing of capitalism" - has hastened an unprecedented experiment in urbanization on an astonishingly large scale. Great Leap Forward contains essays that explore, in a theoretical and statistical context, the results of this rapid modernization, which has produced an entirely new urban substance.
About the author:
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).
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Great Leap Forward
Flexicover 7.7 x 9.6 in., 720 pages,
ISBN: 978-3-8228-6048-9
Multilingual Edition: German, French, English Availability: Not in Stock |
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"This series reintroduces a non-judgmental interest in urbanism-long ignored by schools of architecture and long needing the revisit. Buy them. You'll want to have first editions, after all."
Building Design, United Kingdom
Building Design, United Kingdom