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现货中英对照 Delirious New York 癫狂的纽约 库哈斯elirious New York
A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan

Rem Koolhaas

Since its original publication in 1978, Delirious New York has attained mythic status. Back in print in a newly designed edition, this influential cultural, architectural, and social history of New York is even more popular, selling out its first printing on publication. Rem Koolhaas's celebration and analysis of New York depicts the city as a metaphor for the incredible variety of human behavior. At the end of the nineteenth century, population, information, and technology explosions made Manhattan a laboratory for the invention and testing of a metropolitan lifestyle -- "the culture of congestion" -- and its architecture.

"Manhattan," he writes, "is the 20th century's Rosetta Stone . . . occupied by architectural mutations (Central Park, the Skyscraper), utopian fragments (Rockefeller Center, the U.N. Building), and irrational phenomena (Radio City Music Hall)." Koolhaas interprets and reinterprets the dynamic relationship between architecture and culture in a number of telling episodes of New York's history, including the imposition of the Manhattan grid, the creation of Coney Island, and the development of the skyscraper. Delirious New York is also packed with intriguing and fun facts and illustrated with witty watercolors and quirky archival drawings, photographs, postcards, and maps. The spirit of this visionary investigation of Manhattan equals the energy of the city itself.

 

癫狂的纽约——一个追溯性的宣言

雷姆·库哈斯

 

序言

哲学家和语言学家应该首先考虑诗意的形而上学;这门科学不是从外部世界寻找证据,而是从思考这个问题的内心的细小修正中寻找答案。因为这个世界是人创造的,他们心中的真理才值得追寻。

——詹巴蒂斯塔·维柯

 

如果不是为了寻找自己的道路,我们要心灵何用?

——费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基

 

宣言

如何以都市主义的形式为20世纪的遗产写一个宣言,在人们对此反感的时候?宣言的致命弱点在于它锰有的缺乏证据。

曼哈顿的问题正好相反:它有海量的证据但是缺少宣言。

这本书是基于这两个观察的交汇点构想的:它是对曼哈顿的追溯性宣言。

曼哈顿是20世纪的罗塞塔石碑[1]

曼哈顿大部分表面不仅被建筑的变体(中央公园,摩天大楼),乌托邦的碎片(洛克菲勒中心,联合国总部大楼)和不理性的现象(无线城音乐厅)占据,而且每个街区都被几层影子建筑所覆盖,以过去的占有,失败的项目和流行的空想形式出现,为纽约的现状提供了替代的图像。

尤其(咨询特价)年和(咨询特价)年间,一种新的文化(机器文化?)将曼哈顿作为试验场:一座理想化的岛屿,创造和检验大都会生活方尸和随之产生的建筑一起成为集体性的试验。整座城市变成人类经验的工厂,真实和自然不再存在。

这本书是对曼哈顿的诠释。曼哈顿赋予了表面上看起来不连续——甚至不协调的——片段一定程度的一致性和连贯性,这种诠释试图将曼哈顿作为一种不成熟理论——曼哈顿主义的产物。曼哈顿主义的项目只存在于全由人虚构的世界中,换言之,只生活于幻想中——雄心勃勃想要实现,它从未被公开的陈述过。

 

 

 

  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Monacelli (December 1, 1997)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: (咨询特价)
  • ISBN-13: 978-(咨询特价)
  • Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.2 x 0.9 inches

 

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