TY - BOOK AU - Koolhaas,Rem AU - Koolhaas,Rem AU - Mau,Bruce AU - Sigler,Jennifer AU - Werlemann,Hans ED - Office for Metropolitan Architecture TI - Small, medium, large, extra-large : : Office for metropolitan architecture, Rem Koolhaas, and Bruce Mau SN - 9781885254863 PY - 1998/// CY - New York : PB - Monacelli Press KW - Koolhaas, Rem KW - Mau, Bruce KW - City planning KW - Architecture, Modern KW - 20th century N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 1284-1299) N2 - "This massive book is a novel about architecture. Conceived by Rem Koolhaas ... and Bruce Mau ... as a free-fall in the space of the typographic imagination, the book's title ... is also its framework: projects and essays are arranged according to scale. The book combines essays, manifestoes, diaries, fairy tales, travelogues, a cycle of meditations on the contemporary city, with work produced by Koolhaas's Office for Metropolitan Architecture over the past twenty years. This accumulation of words and images illuminates the condition of architecture today, its splendors and miseries, exploring and revealing the corrosive impact of politics, context, the economy, globalization, the world" UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0835/2004695129-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0835/2004695129-d.html ER -