![]() ![]() ![]() Modern architecture has been bound up with questions of urbanism since its eighteenth and nineteenth century beginnings: Siegfried Giedion’s modernist summa, Space, Time and Architecture, for example, begins with the Baroque restructuration of Rome by Sixtus V and ends with the Rockefeller Centre and Robert Moses’s parkways, even though it is essentially a celebration of Le Corbusier. ![]() footnote 1 These extraordinary volumes are utterly unlike anything else one can find in the print media neither picture books nor illustrated text, they are in movement, like a cd rom, and their statistics are visually beautiful, their images legible to a degree.Īlthough architecture is one of the few remaining arts in which the great auteurs still exist-and although Koolhaas is certainly one of those-the seminar which has produced its first results in these two volumes is not dedicated to architecture but rather to the exploration of the city today, in all its untheorized difference from the classical urban structure that existed at least up until World War II. ![]() T he Project on the City assembles research from an ongoing graduate seminar directed by Rem Koolhaas at the Harvard School of Design its first two volumes-the Great Leap Forward, an exploration of the development of the Pearl River Delta between Hong Kong and Macao, and the Guide to Shopping-have just appeared in sumptuous editions, from Taschen. ![]()
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