{"id":3240,"date":"2010-01-10T12:19:40","date_gmt":"2010-01-10T19:19:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/?p=3240"},"modified":"2010-10-07T12:12:58","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T19:12:58","slug":"rem-koolhaas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/archives\/rem-koolhaas\/","title":{"rendered":"REM KOOLHAAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Description:<\/strong> Created by Rem Koolhas with Toronto-based designer Bruce Mau. 1344 pages profusely illustrated! A huge collage splicing freewheeling essays, diary excerpts, photographs, architectural plans, sketches, cartoons and surreal montages of images. There&#8217;s also a running glossary of Zen-like definitions, plus fables and parables intended to shake modern architects out of conventional thinking and to dispel urban despair.  That approach seems compatible with his own innovative, eclectic vision as head of the Dutch firm Office of Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.), whose houses, villas, office towers, libraries, colleges, cultural complexes and other projects are showcased here. While some readers may be mystified by a nonlinear hodgepodge, architects, planners and designers will find this frequently outrageous assemblage a provocative repository of ideas. Minor wear to edges and corners of bards, otherwise fine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Bookseller Inventory # 17679<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/remkool.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3241\" title=\"remkool\" src=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/remkool-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"229\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/remkool-229x300.jpg 229w, https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/remkool.jpg 459w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 229px) 100vw, 229px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"sold\">SOLD<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abebooks.com\/servlet\/BookDetailsPL?bi=1214611954&amp;searchurl=bi%3D0%26bx%3Doff%26ds%3D30%26sortby%3D2%26sts%3Dt%26tn%3Ds%252Cm%252Cl%252Cxl%26vci%3D529847%26x%3D78%26y%3D9\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong id=\"book-title\">S,M,L,Xl<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em> <span id=\"book-author\">Koolhaus, Rem and Mau, Bruce<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong id=\"book-title\">ISBN: <\/strong>1885254865<strong id=\"book-title\"><br \/>\nPublisher: <\/strong>Monacelli Press, New York<strong id=\"book-title\"><br \/>\nPublication Date: <\/strong>1998<strong id=\"book-title\"><br \/>\nBinding: <\/strong>Hard Cover<strong id=\"book-title\"><br \/>\nBook Condition: <\/strong>Very Good<strong id=\"book-title\"><br \/>\nDust Jacket Condition: <\/strong>No Dust Jacket<strong id=\"book-title\"><br \/>\nEdition: <\/strong>Second Edition<strong id=\"book-title\"><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Description: Created by Rem Koolhas with Toronto-based designer Bruce Mau. 1344 pages profusely illustrated! A huge collage splicing freewheeling essays, diary excerpts, photographs, architectural plans, sketches, cartoons and surreal montages of images. There&#8217;s also a running glossary of Zen-like definitions, plus fables and parables intended to shake modern architects out of conventional thinking and to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-3240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recently-sold","tag-architecture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3240"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9626,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3240\/revisions\/9626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackcatbooks.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}