1. Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto of Manhattan Rem Koolhaas
ARCH 222 Presentation
Yagmur G. Burhan

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. Manhattan and its;
Architectural mutations (Central Park, the Skyscraper)
Utopian fragments (Rockefeller Center, the UN Building)
Irrational phenomena (Radio City Music Hall)
Phantom architecture

7. Coney Island Shift ftom real to synthetic
Strategies effected Manhattan
Overgrowth and limited sources

8. Skyscrapers
A Glorious Whole
Urbanistic approaches
innovations

9. Radio City Music Hall

10. Ectasy in architecture Density in Manhattan

11. Manhattan: The city of the captive globe
Manhattanism

12. “Architecture is a dangerous mixture of power and impotence”
Rem Koolhaas