Elements of Architecture focuses on the fragments of the rich and complex architectural collage. Window, façade, balcony, corridor, fireplace, stair, escalator, elevator: the book seeks to excavate the micro-narratives of building detail. The result is no single history, but rather the web of origins, contaminations, similarities, and differences in architectural evolution, including the influence of technological advances, climatic adaptation, political calculation, economic contexts, regulatory requirements, and new digital opportunities. It’s a guide that is long overdue—in Koolhaas’s own words, “Never was a book more relevant—at a moment where architecture as we know it is changing beyond recognition.”
Derived, updated, and expanded from Koolhaas’s exhaustive and much-lauded exhibition at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale, this is an essential toolkit to understanding the fundamentals that comprise structure around the globe. Designed by Irma Boom and based on research from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, the 2,600-page monograph contains essays from Rem Koolhaas, Stephan Trueby, Manfredo di Robilant, and Jeffrey Inaba; interviews with Werner Sobek and Tony Fadell (of Nest); and an exclusive photo essay by Wolfgang Tillmans.
In addition to comprehensively updated texts and new images, this edition is designed and produced to visually (and physically) embody the immense scope of its subject matter: Custom split-spine binding: our printer modified their industrial binding machine to allow for the flexible, eight-centimeter thick spine
Contains a new introductory chapter with forewords, table of contents, and an index, located in the middle of the book (where it naturally opens due to its unique spine)
Printed on 50g Opakal paper, allowing for the ideal level of opacity needed to realize Boom’s palimpsest-like design
Translucent overlays and personal annotations by Koolhaas and Boom are woven in each chapter to create an alternative, faster route through the book
Printed at the originally intended 100% size for full readability
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Rem Koolhaas es cofundador de la Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). Antes de convertirse en arquitecto, trabajó como periodista y guionista, y en 1978 publicó Delirious New York. En 1996 su libro S,M,L,XL resumió la obra de la OMA y estableció relaciones entre la sociedad y la arquitectura contemporáneas. Entre muchos premios internacionales, ha recibido el premio Pritzker (2000) y el Praemium Imperiale (2003). Fue director de la Bienal de Arquitectura de Venecia de 2014, año en el que también se publicó por primera vez Elements of Architecture.
Irma Boom es una diseñadora gráfica especializada en el diseño de libros. Desde que fundase Irma Boom Office en 1990, ha trabajado con firmas como Chanel, las Naciones Unidas, OMA/Rem Koolhaas, la fundación Prada, Pirelli y el Rijksmuseum Ámsterdam. Ha recibido el Premio Gutenberg y el Johannes Vermeer, el premio estatal de bellas artes de Holanda, entre otros galardones. Sus trabajos forman parte de la colección permanente del Departamento de Diseño y Arquitectura del Museum of Modern Art de Nueva York. Desde 1992, Boom es crítica senior en la Universidad de Yale, en Estados Unidos.
Wolfgang Tillmans está considerado como uno de los artistas más influyentes de su generación. Su obra, muy diversa ―naturalezas muertas, retratos, imaginería abstracta―, abarca desde movimientos políticos o representaciones fotográficas hasta subculturas, y se encuentra en las colecciones de numerosos museos internacionales, incluidos el Museum of Modern Art y la Tate Gallery. Ha recibido varios galardones, entre ellos el premio Turner en 2000.
This collection is a look through the microscope at the real fundamentals of our buildings, revealing the essential design techniques used by any architect, anywhere, anytime. Conceived by Rem Koolhaas and made with the Harvard Graduate School of Design, it is a primordial toolkit to understanding how seemingly stable elements are actually in constant evolution.
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