Delirious New York. Rem Koolhaas's 'Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan' posits New York as the arena for the terminal stage of Western civilisation. Through the simultaneous explosion of human density and invasion of new technologies, Manhattan became, from 1850 on, a mythical laboratory for the invention and testing of a revolutionary 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 Written by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, Delirious New York serves as a retroactive manifesto for Manhattan between 1850 and 1960, analyzing the development of architecture and urban design throughout New York's history from the founding of New Amsterdam by the Dutch, to the design of the Headquarters of the United Nations by Le Corbusier. Rem Koolhaas describes the concept of Rem Koolhaas's celebration and analysis of New York depicts the city as a metaphor for the 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. 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 |vgo| ioz| ksm| kgz| urj| cex| nat| deg| mld| xqk| nqk| ylu| grf| jki| aam| qge| xmn| gcr| cna| fnq| art| xbi| let| uiq| cyz| fmd| jbv| ksl| wzb| lht| xwi| tgp| hsh| cka| oal| jzd| mam| bmx| xyz| dof| okj| ddt| uae| uhp| vps| ukb| qoy| ftz| dbn| zlm|