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Delirious new york, a retroactive manifesto for manhattan. The cofounder of one of the worlds most renowned architecture firms, oma, and an urbanplanner. This is a first edition with dust jacket this book, which is one of the most important pieces of theoretical architecture of the last fifty years is about how the guys that created coney island decided to turn their. Calling new york the 20th centurys rosetta stone, dutch architect rem koolhaas here focuses on architecture and design in new york from 1890 until around 1940, with long discussions of coney island, the skyscraper, the waldorf astoria, and rockefeller center. The architectural history of new york city as described in rem koolhaas book delirious new york this video is a summary for koolhaas take on the city birth.
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