Junkspace with Running Room

Name: Junkspace with Running Room
SKU: 9781907903762
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Author: Rem KoolhaasHal Foster

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Junkspace with Running Room brings together two groundbreaking essays in one edition. In Junkspace (2001), architect Rem Koolhaas itemised in delirious detail how our cities are being overwhelmed. His celebrated jeremiad is here updated and twinned with Running Room, a fresh response from architectural critic Hal Foster.

‘The manifesto is a modernist mode, one that looks to the future… Junkspace makes no such claim: “Architecture disappeared in the twentieth century,” states Koolhaas matter-of-factly. Junkspace does a harder thing: it “foretells” the present, which is to say that it calls on us to recognize what is already everywhere around us.’ Hal Foster

‘Junkspace is the new flamboyant, flexible, forgettable face of architecture, rendered by Rem Koolhaas in a visceral and rampantly analytical essay.’

Office for Metropolitan Architecture

‘Junkspace is the most important piece of writing on architecture of the 21st Century.’

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‘Rem Koolhaas’s luminescent essay Junkspace decries the mall as the slagheap of America [and] illuminates the dark underbelly of the kind of advanced capitalism living in the mall.’

Columbia Review Magazine

Published: 01/11/2013
ISBN: 9781907903762
Extent: 96 pages