Rem Koolhaas

manifestation during the twentieth century. Moving on to the second section where the controversial architect Rem Koolhaas is presented by revealing his career inspiration, architectural methodologies and mostly his ambivalent two-sided philosophy as he insists on accepting whatever the capitalism engenders and harmony the system through his designs yet he is essentially against the very existence of capitalism. Thus the third parts ushers in the consequence that Koolhaas’ paradoxical positions contribute to his distinguishing interpretation of utopian architecture as the proposal The City of the Captive Globe, a series of disconnected skyscraper blocks ordered on an archipelago-like grid, for which accompanies the traits of schism and pluralism that are seemingly compatible with the traditional utopian architectures. The final section is based on the previous evaluation of Koolhaas’ philosophy and the City of the Captive Globe, which intends to investigate its influence on discourse of utopia from the lens of its coeval utopian architecture and the further contemporary interpretation of…

Since 1993, Miuccia Prada and her husband and business partner, Patrizio Bertelli have owned and managed Fondazione Prada, a nonprofit contemporary arts foundation that supports and exhibits emerging artists (Ryan 2007, 9). As Nicky Ryan notes in her article, ‘Prada and the Art of Patronage,’ Prada has also seated itself within the avant-garde world through numerous collaborations with artists such as Tom Sachs, Andreas Gursky, and architect Rem Koolhaas (Ryan 2007). It therefore would come to…

persuasive to its audience. This persuasion varies often. For example, a credible and reliable author is a necessity in order for a work to be convincing. In addition to a well-rounded text, the purpose of the argument must be clear to the reader in order for it to be effective. Architect Rem Koolhaas and investigative journalist George Packer attempt this in their arguments about the booming megacity of Lagos, Nigeria. Both the documentary Koolhaas appears in and the article Packer writes…

Week 7 Typology and Morphology: Koolhaas: Manhattanism vs Atlanta Questions: In what way do contradictions of cities like Atlanta and Manhattan enhance our experience of the city? How does the morphology of a grid layout impact the movement of people, and how does that impact the experience of the urbanism? In Rem Koolhaas’ Delirious New York, he engages the readers through his review and criticism of modern urbanism and architecture. He explores the city of Manhattan as an urban…

Coney island structure is interlocked with the neighborhoods culture: “the need for pleasure dominates…step up production of pleasure generates its own instruments.” Koolhaas accurately describes the island as a “clitoral appendage at the mouth of New York Harbor”, “the incubator for Manhattan’s incipient themes and infant mythology” and “a fetal Manhattan” (30,31). Coney Island enticed commuters from the city “to live inside a fantasy” with its untouched, natural beaches, providing an escape…

In Rem Koolhaas’ essay, “Bigness and the Problem of Large”, Koolhaas attempts to address the issues of Bigness, “Bigness no longer needs the city: it competes with the city; it represents the city; it preempts the city; or better still, it is the city” (515). Koolhaas is not eliciting that Bigness describes the singular monumentality of a building, but that Bigness and the problem of large is the newfound struggle between urbanism and architecture as concepts that have to find a way to coexist…

re-imagine a journey from one place to another. This technique was actually started in ancient Roman times among teachers of the art of speechmaking. In terms of embodied space, this point is actually explaining the action of human to remain conscious and aware of his surroundings. In other words, to retain the appreciation of man towards the element of space, one should renew the focus on the element. This is to prevent the object to fade away into the world of unconsciousness. Besides…

of the photography class of Bernd and Hilla Becher, an origin of the Düsseldorf School of Photography and it's deadpan aesthetics, Thomas Demand was trained in sculpture under Fritz Schwegler - that's why his work can be regarded both in terms of photography, sculpture or installation. Critically extolled since the mid-90s, Demand has been a subject of numerous shows, the most important taking place at the Kunsthaus Bregenz (2004), MoMA in New York (2005), Serpentine Gallery in London (2006),…

“With great power comes great responsibility.” Architect Rem Koolhaas states that, “The acceptance of certain realities doesn’t preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.” Just because an individual is accepting of life’s realities, does not mean they have to give up their ideals. And having ideals does not mean an individual should ignore reality. That balance between realism and idealism is what leads to success, and that is what makes them both significant in a person’s life.…

strength it can hold in design as well. A concept may not always be the way forward for a principle but understanding that a city can have its own principle which may copy itself within the city through buildings and spaces. Our job as designers is to learn how to arrange these ideas in a matrix which has informed layered hierarchies. References http://lava.ds.arch.tue.nl/books/koolhaas.html http://www.monacellipress.com/book/?isbn=9781885254863…