KOOLHAAS~Rem – Content (sold)
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Publisher: Taschen Artist: Rem Koolhaas Year: 2004 Isbn: 3-8228-3070-4 Softcover, First edition, 544 pag., English, 170 x 225 mm. Edited by: Rem Koolhaas, Brendan McGetrick, Art direction: Simon Brown, Jon Link Content documents the past seven years of Rem Koolhaas and OMA-AMO’s work
Rem Koolhaas, Content "This book takes place at the cusp of the 20th and 21st centuries, in the pre and post-September 11th world. It is a singular product of its time, packed full of words and images portraying the architectural projects and metaphysical mechanics that have defined Rem Koolhas's OMA-AMO firm over the past seven years. In the format of a small, thick magazine, this ""book"" is more of an anti-book, an informal tribute the ephemeral world we inhabit. Focusing on the theme ""Go East,"" this visual journey follows OMA-AMO from San Francisco to Tokyo, traversing our massive and turbulent planet in search of ""an opportunity to realize the visions that make remaining at home torturous."
Like its predecessor, Content provides a rare view to the creative processes of one of architecture’s most famous firms. Though it offers the fullness of a book, Content has the format and tone of a magazine. Like a magazine, it contains articles by outside contributors, including journalists, medical writers, and cultural critics. Envisioned as a non-profit enterprise by TASCHEN and OMA-AMO, Content is being sold at the lowest price possible. In order to cover production costs and provide a more authentic magazine feel, the book contains paid advertising. In its mood and subject matter, Content reflects recent shifts in geo-politics, particularly since 9-11. The book’s content follows Koolhaas’s expanding interests, mixing architecture with politics, history, technology, and sociology. Its subjects are diverse: Martha Stewart is interviewed in one section; the history of African communist radio is charted in another. An anthropological study of subcultures in Germany’s Ruhr Valley is followed by proposals for the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. Topics are arranged according to geography: the book begins in San Francisco and travels eastwards, finally ending in Tokyo. On the way, time is spent in Brazil, Nigeria, Portugal, Russia, and China, among other places. At a time when the profession is growing increasingly introverted, Content reconnects architecture with the outside world. The editors: Rem Koolhaas is a co-founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture. Having worked as a journalist and script writer before becoming an architect, in 1978 he published Delirious New York, a retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan. In 1995, his book S,M,L,XL summarized the work of OMA and established connections of contemporary society and architecture. Amongst many international awards and exhibitions he received the Pritzker Prize (2000) and the Praemium Imperiale (2003). Brendan McGetrick is a writer and editor from the United States. Before starting Content, he collaborated with Rem Koolhaas and AMO on a special issue of Wired magazine. He is a regular contributor to several magazines and is currently working on a new book about record collecting.
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