Manhattan is the site of Western civilization's last stand. With its exploding population and the invasion of new technologies, Manhattan has, since the mid-19th century, been growing into a testing ground for a new culture of congestion and the collective unconscious of a new metropolitan way of life. Delirious New York is a "retroactive manifesto," an interpretation of the missing theory that underlies Manhattan's development. It was a polemical and prescient book upon its publication in 1978, illustrating the relations ...
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Manhattan is the site of Western civilization's last stand. With its exploding population and the invasion of new technologies, Manhattan has, since the mid-19th century, been growing into a testing ground for a new culture of congestion and the collective unconscious of a new metropolitan way of life. Delirious New York is a "retroactive manifesto," an interpretation of the missing theory that underlies Manhattan's development. It was a polemical and prescient book upon its publication in 1978, illustrating the relations between a mutant metropolitan universe and the singular architecture it can produce. In it Koolhaas also makes the claim that architecture often generates culture. Manhattan es el escenario donde se representa el ???ltimo acto de la civilizaci???n occidental. Con la explosi???n demogr???fica y la invasi???n de las nuevas tecnolog???as, Manhattan se ha convertido, desde mediados del siglo XIX, en el laboratorio de una nueva cultura, la de la congesti???n; una isla m???tica donde se hace realidad el inconsciente colectivo de un nuevo modo de vida metropolitano, una f???brica de lo artificial donde lo natural y lo real han dejado de existir. Delirio de Nueva York es un 'manifiesto retroactivo', una interpretaci???n de la teor???a no formulada que subyace en el desarrollo de Manhattan; es el relato de las intrigas de un urbanismo que, desde sus inicios en Coney Island hasta los te???ricos del rascacielos, ha hecho explotar su ret???cula de origen. Este libro, pol???mico y premonitorio (publicado originariamente en 1978), ilustra las relaciones entre un universo metropolitano mutante y la singular arquitectura que puede producir; y afirma tambi???n que, con frecuencia, la arquitectura genera la cultura.
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Very Good. This is a very good softcover copy with just light wear. Completely clean. The spine is not creased, binding firm. Text in SPANISH. Translated by Jorge Sainz. Illustrated in black & white and color with photographs, prints, architectural drawings, plans, elevations, details, etc. 9" high X 6" wide, 318 pages. This book will be securely wrapped and shipped with tracking.
