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Rem Koolhaas (born in 1944) has been part of the international
architecture avant-garde since the nineteen-seventies. His numerous
worldwide awards include the Pritzker Prize in 2000 for his lifetime
achievement. This book interprets his many buildings and projects for
the first time through his own comprehensive theoretical oeuvre,
comprising polemics manifestos, books about cultural studies such as
Delirious New York, and so-called "design patents". Rem Koolhaas
developed an evolutionary design method that linked theory and practice,
whereby an idea is applied to several projects and combined with others
in different ways, so that it is continuously evolving. The book not
only combines this architectural knowledge with the intellectual history
of the concepts, but also reinterprets the function of the authors or
the architects and their originality.
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