KOOLHAAS, REM & BRUCE MAU / OMA — S,M,L,XL

Köln : Taschen / Monacelli 1994 ISBN 3822877433 1344 p, profusely illustrated in b&w and color, 18 x 24 x 8 cm. HARDCOVER: (Orig. bound in silver faux leather with black and orange text on both boards and spine. VERY GOOD) A mammoth compendium of 20 years of OMA's projects, arranged in order of size, S,M,L,XL gives an insight into the restless, ingenuitive thinking of the office through an era when architecture became a mere bystander to the explosion of the market economy and globalization. The book combines essays, manifestoes, a cycle of meditations on the contemporary city, with work produced by Koolhaas's Office for Metropolitan Architecture over 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 (Blurb)