Rem Koolhaas. Verso un´architettura estrema.

The life and work of the Dutch architect analysed through a selection of critical essays and conferences revealing the key concepts of his work. A new book, edited by Sanford Kwinter and Marco Rainò, looks into Koolhaas’s ideas using a chronological approach, beginning when the Dutch architect taught at the Princeton School of Architecture and leading up to the recent conference at the Berlage Institute in Rotterdam.
The first part of the book presents a number of projects run by Koolhaas at the Rice University of Houston (a conference and seminar), as well as a celebrated essay by architectural theorist Sanford Kwinter. The second part offers a transcription of "Start Again", the conference held at the Berlage Institut which is considered to be the turning point for Koolhaas’s theoretical work and which forms the basis of the direction taken by OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture) over recent years. In addition, an unpublished portrait of the architect by Jennifer Sigler, editor of the architecture magazine “Hunch”, and an essay by Marco Rainò which covers the main points in Koolhaas’s career, OMA and AMO.
The publisher of “Rem Koolhaas” is a new firm which publishes books related to visual arts. Postmediabooks began on internet with postmedia.net (a webzine for contemporary art set up in 1996) then moving on to cover new media, architecture, fashion and design.