Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto of Manhattan Rem Koolhaas 24.04.2016 ARCH 222 Presentation Yagmur G. Burhan
Rem Koolhaas His printed publications: born in Rotterdam, 1944 graduated from the Architectural Association in London trained at Cornell University under Oswald Mathias Ungers His printed publications: 1978 Delirious New York 1995 S, M, L, XL 2001 Mutations 2004 Content 2006 Junkspace 2006 Post-Occupancy 2010 Singapore Songlines 2011 Project Japan 2013 Junkspace with Running Room 2014 Elements
OMA AMO Dutch architecture firm opened in London Founded in 1975 by Rem Koolhaas, Elia Zenghelis, Zoe Zenghelis, Madelon Vriesendorp practices architecture, urbanism and cultural analysis first projects for New York AMO research and design studio works on media, politics, renewable energy, technology, publishing, fashion
Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto of Manhattan (1978) Expanded version of an article in Architectural Design Manifesto and Manhattan intersection: Lack of evidence-Manifesto No manifesto-Manhattan Manhattan as an extended lobby Times Square and its environment: a notoriously seedy neighbourhood Manhattan- 20th century’s Rosetta Stone
Hotel Spinx New Welfare Island (Roosevelt Island) Welfare Palace Hotel Elie & Zoe Zenghelis Times Square Urban hotel, model for mass housing New Welfare Island (Roosevelt Island) Rem Koolhaas, German Martinez, Richard Perlmutter Manhattan grid Manhattan’s dominant characteristic Welfare Palace Hotel “A city within a city” Looks toward Manhattan Located at the bottom of the island
Manhattan and its; Architectural mutations (Central Park, the Skyscraper) Utopian fragments (Rockefeller Center, the UN Building) Irrational phenomena (Radio City Music Hall) Phantom architecture
Coney Island Shift ftom real to synthetic Strategies effected Manhattan Overgrowth and limited sources
Skyscrapers A Glorious Whole Urbanistic approaches innovations
Radio City Music Hall
Ectasy in architecture Density in Manhattan
Manhattan: The city of the captive globe Manhattanism
“Architecture is a dangerous mixture of power and impotence” Rem Koolhaas