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Mutations by Rem Koolhaas

Process of urban mutation

Mutations by Rem Koolhaas The city is in the process of mutation as globalization and urbanization transform both the environment and traditional architectural forms. "Mutations" presents an atlas of new urban spaces. Featuring work and texts by: Rem Koolhaas and the Harvard Project on the City, Sanford Kwinter and Daniela Fabricius, Stefano Boeri, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Nadia Tazi, Jean Attali, Moulier Boutang, Saskia Sassen, Bart Lootsma, and many others.

Rem Koolhaas

Rem Koolhaas was born in Rotterdam in 1944. In 1975 Rem Koolhaas founded the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), which has become one of today's most renowned and radical architecture firms.

Contents Mutations

  • How to Build a City Roman Operating System
  • (Harvard Project on the City) Amale Andraos, Rami El-Samahy, Patricia Heyda, Jennifer Lee, Christina Long, Allyson Mendenhall, Francisco Meza, Hunter Ford Tura, Peter Zellner
  • The Roman System, or the Generic in All Times and Tenses - Jean Attali
  • Telegram from Nowhere - Mckenzie Wark
  • Fragments of Net-Theory - Nadia Tazi
  • What's New About the New Media? - Friedrich Kittler
  • A Mutation of Political Economy as a Whole - Yann Moulier Boutang
  • Looking Like Flames and Falling Like Stars. Kosovo, the First Internet War -Thomas Keenan
  • Breakthrough to the World Code: etoy's Concept of Net Architecture - Reinhold Grether
  • The Global City: Introducing a Concept and its History - Saskia Sassen
  • Shopping (Harvard Project on the City) Tae-Wook Cha, Chuihua Judy Chung, Jutiki Gunter, Daniel Herman, Hiromi Hosoya, Sze Tsung Leong, Kiwa Matsushita, John McMorrough, Juan Palop-Casado, Markus Schaefer, Tran Vinh, Srdjan Jovanovich Weiss, Louise Wyman
  • Control Space - Sze Tsung Leong
  • Europa - Francesco Jodice
  • Europa - Jordi Bernado
  • America - Alex MacLean
  • China - Jordi Bernad6
  • Urban Africa - Edgar Cleijne
  • A Surpassing Mutation - Jean Attaii
  • PRD Pearl River Delta (Harvard Project on the City) Bernard Chang, Mihai Craciun, Nancy Lin, Yuyang Liu, Katherine Orff, Stephanie Smith, Rem Koolhaas
  • USE Uncertain States of Europe -Stefano Boeri and Multiplicity
  • Notes for a Research Program -Stefano Boeri
  • USE Cases
  • Notes for a Cultural History Between Uncertainty and the Contemporary Urban Condition - Yorgos Simeoforidis
  • Post-It City: The Other European Public Spaces - Giovanni La Varra
  • Unstable Geographies - Valentin Blum
  • Observe and Interact - Lorenzo Romito
  • Green Is The Color - Mirko Zardini
  • Cityscapes - Gabriele Basilico
  • Smooth Space - Aldo Bonomi
  • Strata, Not Mutations - Eduard Bru
  • The New Landscape - Bart Lootsma
  • Temporary Habits - Francesco Jodice
  • The American City - Sanford Kwinter, Daniela Fabricius
  • Urbanism: An Archivist's Art?
  • Television: The Infrastructural Revolution
  • Generica
  • Houston
  • Contract with America
  • American Noir
  • Dossier
  • Lagos (Harvard Project on the City) Pierre Belanger, Chuihua Judy Chung, Joshua Comaroff, Michael Cosmas, Sonal Gandhi, A. David Hamilton, Lan-ying Ip, Jeannie Kim, Gullivar Shepard, Reshma Singh, Nathaniel Slayton, James Stone, Sameh Wahba
  • Urban Rumors -a project curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist produced in collaboration with Fri-Art, Fribourg, Switzerland

Mutations by Rem Koolhaas

Publisher: Actar Editorial
ISBN: 8495273519

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