Rem koolhaas, junk space, in domus 833 january 2001. Tibor pataky, assistant at the acht lab, shall be giving a class on rem koolhaas and the essay junkspace. Rem koolhaas blows the ceiling off the venice architecture biennale. A plan stripped of all its qualities and reduced to a calculated relation between discreet standardised elements. Conceptually, koolhaas himself admits that the ideaname junkspace came to his mind as the inversion of space junk. Garage presents junkspace, a publication comprising three essays by rem koolhaas. Junkspace is a rambling, brilliant lamentation on the death of architecture by rem koolhaas, a starchitect who actively participated in its demise.
Singapore can be weired on the exact site that had been. Todays main configuration of a building designed by oma and rem koolhass is a prominent source of. Remment koolhaas, usually abbreviated to rem koolhaas, was born on 17 november 1944 in rotterdam, netherlands, to anton koolhaas 19121992 and selinde pietertje roosenburg born 1920. The southern arm of the lijnbaan, which is not eligible for 50year preservation status, is being threatened by moneyed interests and a high powered designer, rem koolhaas, and his firm, oma. Beyond a certain scale, architecture acquires the properties of bigness. Hambright drawing canonical ideas in architecture uofa. Buildings and structures designed by dutch architect rem koolhaas and the office for metropolitan architecture oma.
In amsterdam, rem koolhaas redefines the museum model. His celebrated jeremiad is updated here and twinned with. If spacejunk is the human debris that litters the universe, junkspace is the residue mankind leaves on the planet. You can easily find and read the pdf online 17 pages. Of the many firms headed by a celebrity architect, rem koolhaass office for metropolitan architecture oma is unique in hiding the light of its famous founder behind. Strategies of the void rem koolhaas, jussieu libraries. The built product of modernization is not modernarchitecture but junkspace.
The result is evident in koolhaas most scathing polemic. Rem koolhaas is not a starchitect w magazine womens. Why is rem koolhaas the worlds most controversial architect. What is junkspace and why do we need to know about it. It will take place tuesday, december 6 th, from 15h15 to 17h00, in auditorium cm 1 the class is part of the course theory of architecture v, given by professor van gerrewey. Rem koolhaas began his career as an architect not by designing a building, but by writing a book. Reading rem koolhaas usually doesnt make one happy. Rem koolhaas born november 17, 1944 is a dutch architect and urbanist known for his innovative, cerebral designs.
You can easily see that he is disappointed by modern architecture and that the aspect to which he is hostile to the purpose of architecture today compared to the purpose of old architecture. Critics notebook why rem koolhaas brought a tractor to the guggenheim. Rem koolhas office for metropolitan architecture 2. Two documentary films by bert haanstra for which his father wrote the scenarios were nominated for an academy award for. The architect, a champion of cities, now turns a spotlight on the countryside in a sprawling new exhibition about the. Not the usual kind of architects book, full of glossy colour pictures of the authors work, but a. So we went to jennifer sigler currently the editor of the upstart dutch architectural journal, hunch, and previously the editor of koolhaas seminal 1,344 page monograph, s, m, l, xl and we asked her to track down rem in rotterdam, where his office, oma and its new counterpart, amo is based. Rem koolhaas published an essay called junkspace in 2003, in the opening he describes this junkspace as being the residue mankind leaves on the planet it is a direct inversion of space junk which is the debris humans leave in space. Pritzkerprize laureate remment lucas koolhaas you probably know him as rem turns 68 today. Koolhaas was the 2000 pritzker architecture prize recipient, and was more recently lauded with the 2010 golden lion for lifetime achievement at the venice biennale. All the rest of the article is slightly nervewrecking nicolai ouroussoff, so a bit constipated and adoring at the same time. Junkspace is what remains after modernization has run its course or, more precisely, what coagulates while modernization is in progress, its fallout. Is the contemporary city like the contemporary airportall the same. The built product of modernisation is not modern architecture but junkspace.
The average contemporary lunch box is a microcosm of junkspace. Junkspace can be airborne, bring malaria to sussex. Pdf this article discusses the metaphors of time koolhaas uses and its implications for understanding architecture. Rem koolhaas singapore songlines ritratto di una metropoli potemkin o trentanni di tabula rasa edited by manfredo di robilant quodlibet, macerata, april 2010. Rem koolhaas defines junkspace as the residue mankind leaves on the planet.
Full text of six canonical projects by rem koolhaas see other formats. Rem koolhaas has spoken out against the way technology is infiltrating buildings, describing the rise of smart systems as potentially sinister. But it is remarkable, and worth an honorary doctorate, that he is probably first of all a thinker with that remarkable sense of necessity and urgency, the gravity and sobriety, of the refugee and the mother, and some believe of architecture. Polarities have become equatorial, nothing left in between. Junkspace by rem koolhaas japanese junkspace is a tacky stew of vending machines, hair salons, love hotels, karaoke equipment and pachinko parlors. Rem koolhaas defined the term typical plan as one of the purest american architectural archetypes. Junkspace first appeared in the harvard design school guide to shopping 2001, a vast compendium of text, images, and data concerning the consumerist transformation of city and suburb from the first department store to the latest mega mall. Polarities have mergedthere is nothing left between desolation and frenzy. I stumbled upon the essay last year when i was doing my own research and i found the concept of junkspace to be the perfect villain and counterpoint for slow space. A new type of architecture is created, the architecture of junkspace according to koolhaas, where almost all architectural projects have. Paper open access aesthetic delirious urbanism rem koolhaas. The best reason to broach bigness is the one given by climbers of mount everest.
Pages in category rem koolhaas buildings the following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. An exploded false ceiling and a lineup of lavatories become the stars as koolhaas delves. Architettura contemporanea rem koolhaas biblioteca moderna design library sala da concerto modelli di architettura schizzi darchitettura architetti librerie. Full text of six canonical projects by rem koolhaas. The architecture of labor and the space of production. His father was a novelist, critic, and screenwriter. He has been called a modernist, a deconstructivist, and a structuralist, yet many critics claim he leans toward humanism. Originally published in 2001, junkspace is arguably the last of rem koolhaass dynamic interventions in architectural thinking. Basically he tries to prove that rem koolhaas is the worlds most controversial architect. The generic city is a prophetic essay written by rem koolhaas in 1995.
The cofounder of one of the worlds most renowned architecture firms. You can download the paper by clicking the button above. According to rem koolhaas, the 70s had a great impact on the western economic life. The structures are so large they take on a logic and system of their own. In honor of rem koolhaas birthday today, we are bringing you all things koolhaas. Wikimedia commons has media related to rem koolhaas. In bigness, or the problem of large, generic city, and junkspace the renowned architect proceeds from the premise that architecture as we know it has ceased to exist, and whatever has taken its place is yet to be identified and analyzed. Knoll introduced his first furniture collection, tools for. The mechanism of strategic way of design, how it works, and how it is constructed are the main focus of the thesis. Strategies of the void rem koolhaas, jussieu libraries, 199293 s. In these three essays, the famous architect rem koolhaas presents a critique of. Koolhaas teaches at the graduate school of design at harvard university.
Polarities have mergedthere is nothing left between desolation and. Because we abhor the utilitarian, we have condemned ourselves to a lifelong immersion in arbitrariness. As perpetually intensifying collective acceleration merges with the allindividu. If so, it might begin with the meditations by turns elegant and frantic of rem koolhaas and hal foster. Ive read the koolhaas text several times and found it less usefulmeaningful with each reading. In koolhaas manifesto junkspace he expresses his beliefs of what architecture has come to be in a repetitive and metaphorical way. The architect rem koolhaas itemized in delirious detail how our cities are being overwhelmed. Paper open access aesthetic delirious urbanism rem. It was republished, along with hal fosters running room, the following year in the 100th issue of the journal october, a special on obsolescence.
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