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Title: Mutations by Rem Koolhaas, Stefano Boeri, Sanford Kwinter, Nadia Tazi, Daniela Fabricius ISBN: 8-4952735-1-9 Publisher: Actar Editorial Pub. Date: 15 March, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.56 (9 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Empty of Ideas and Full of Itself
Comment: This ridiculous book is nothing more and nothing less than a sad example of the disdain these authors feel for the world at large and for their poor readers in particular. Riddled with typos, filled with pictures of the poorest quality and utterly devoid of any original ideas, the book falls back, again and again, on worn, political cliches and pompous, unnecessarily complex phrasings that serve only one purpose: to conceal the fact that there is absolutely nothing of worth or merit being said here (beyond the incredibly, utterly astounding insight that cities, third world cities especially, are growing pretty darn fast!) At certain points it seems that even the writers can't follow their own ramblings. One particularly confused contributor (McKenzie Wark) writes " . . . technologies enclose, they count and rank what they enclose." Then, four sentences later, he/she writes: "Technologies do not enframe. There's no enclosure . . ." And that is about as coherent as that writer gets. One can only conclude that these people never expected anyone to actually read their book, since they obviously didn't take the time to read it themselves. Thank you Rem Koolhaas and your band of incompetent contributors for wasting my time and money on this utter disgrace of a book.
Rating: 4
Summary: nice book, far nicer object
Comment: this book is packed with info. some of it is relatively hard to get at (your eyes are likely to glaze over at the reams of essays formatted in a narrow, sans-serif OCR-esque font) but the content and data is pretty good. it looks very nice in your bookshelf, but when hitting it up for a re-read, you may find yourself cursing the designers' decisions to go with form over function, IMHO.
Rating: 5
Summary: Outstanding
Comment: This book is to be considered a piece of historical evidence of the tendencies of thought of the new era. Whether you may find the concepts proposed not suitable, every prospective or practicing architect, designer or urban planner must be aware of the latest tendencies of thought in order to be the best-educated he/she can be.
The Pearl River Delta investigation is impecable. For the "reasonably intelligent person" that wrote a comment above, it is a shame that you overlooked the whole analysis on shopping, perhaps because you are so immersed in it in the USA that you cannot see the forest for the trees.
I agree that the language is dense and often martian-like. This is the case of the introductory essay "Telegram from nowhere". But read between the lines. Reading is re-reading said Joyce. You will find a very smart concept regarding the architecture built for the media.
This book is all about cities in different parts in the world. It helps a lot if you are a culturally aware person. If you have had contact with diverse forms of living and thinking, may I highly suggest you get hold of this book. If you are not, you may either feel that the text is just wobbling on things you cannot be empathic with, or you may be on your way to becoming a more educated human being. And do not think by any means that this is a meek and mild pro-globalization text. This book is just rasing questions and proposing concepts, like all masterpiece limit themselves to do.
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Title: S,M,L,Xl by Rem Koolhaas, Bruce Mau, Hans Werlemann ISBN: 1885254865 Publisher: The Monacelli Press Pub. Date: May, 1998 List Price(USD): $75.00 |
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Title: Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan by Rem Koolhaas ISBN: 1885254008 Publisher: The Monacelli Press Pub. Date: December, 1997 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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Title: The Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping / Harvard Design School Project on the City 2 by Chuihua Judy Chung, Jeffrey Inaba, Rem Koolhaas, Sze Tsung Leong ISBN: 3822860476 Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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Title: Immaterial/Ultramaterial: Architecture, Design, and Materials (Millennium Matters) by Toshiko Mori ISBN: 0807615080 Publisher: George Braziller Pub. Date: 15 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.50 |
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Title: Great Leap Forward / Harvard Design School Project on the City by Chuihua Judy Chung, Jeffrey Inaba, Rem Koolhaas, Sze Tsung Leong ISBN: 3822860484 Publisher: TASCHEN America Llc Pub. Date: 22 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.99 |
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