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Delirious New York : a retroactive manifesto for Manhattan / Rem Koolhaas.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Monacelli Press, 1994.Edition: New edDescription: 317 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. ; pbkISBN:
  • 1885254008
  • 9781885254009
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.9
Contents:
Prehistory -- Coney Island: the technology of the fantastic -- The double life of Utopia: the skyscraper. The frontier in the sky ; The skyscraper theorists ; The lives of a block: the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and the Empire State Building ; Definitive instability: the Downtown Athletic Club -- How perfect perfection can be: the creation of Rockefeller Center. The talents of Raymond Hood ; All the Rockefeller Centers ; Radio City Music Hall: the fun never sets ; Kremlin on Fifth Avenue ; 2 Postscripts -- Europeans: Biuer! Dal̕ and Le Corbusier conquer New York -- Postmortem.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-316).

Prehistory -- Coney Island: the technology of the fantastic -- The double life of Utopia: the skyscraper. The frontier in the sky ; The skyscraper theorists ; The lives of a block: the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and the Empire State Building ; Definitive instability: the Downtown Athletic Club -- How perfect perfection can be: the creation of Rockefeller Center. The talents of Raymond Hood ; All the Rockefeller Centers ; Radio City Music Hall: the fun never sets ; Kremlin on Fifth Avenue ; 2 Postscripts -- Europeans: Biuer! Dal̕ and Le Corbusier conquer New York -- Postmortem.

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