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20 de mar. de 2023 · Delirious New York : a retroactive manifesto for Manhattan. by. Koolhaas, Rem. Publication date. 1978. Topics. Architecture -- New York (State) -- New York. Publisher. New York : Oxford University Press.
The book 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.
Koolhaas interprets and reinterprets the dynamic relationship between architecture and culture in a number of telling episodes of New York's history, including the imposition of the Manhattan grid, the creation of Coney Island, and the development of the skyscraper.
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 lifestyle: the Culture of ...
Delirious New York is a retroactive manifesto of Manhattan’s architectural enterprise: it untangles the theories, tactics and dissimulations that allowed New York’s architects to establish the desires of Manhattan’s collective unconscious in the Grid.
1 de jan. de 2001 · Rem Koolhaas writes a retroactive manifesto for New York City. He starts by discussing the circumstances that made New York special, how Coney Island became a destination for leisure and how it then morphed into a haven for catharsis from the city.
Delirious New York is a polemical investigation of Manhattan: it documents the symbiotic relationship between its mutant metropolitan culture and the unique architecture to which it gave rise...
