9781885254016 - S, M, L, XL: Small, Medium, Large, Extra Large von Koolhaas, Rem; Mau, Bruce (5 Ergebnisse)

Hard cover. Zustand: Good. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 1376 p. Audience: General/trade.

Zustand: Very good.

First Edition. First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 1344 pages. A thick monograph from this important Dutch architect. Includes numerous illustrations. A near fine copy with some minor wear wear and some rubbing to the letters. Overall, a very nice copy of a book because of it's size is prone to wear. This is a heavy and oversized book and will require extra shipping.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. Like New. More than a monograph, S, M, L, XL is a genre-defying chronicle of architectural thinking at the close of the 20th century. Conceived by Rem Koolhaas and designed in collaboration with Bruce Mau, the book serves as both a visual diary and intellectual record of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) from its inception through its first two decades. Projects are organized by scale: Small, Medium, Large, and Extra-Large- each category presenting built works, speculative proposals, and critical essays that reflect the shifting ambitions of the firm and its evolving relationship to global urban conditions. Koolhaas's writing, ranging from manifestos to travel notes and meditations on urbanism, provides deep insight into his vision of architecture not as isolated object but as a vehicle for engaging with economic systems, media, and cultural transformation. Bruce Mau's layout, with its radical use of typography, layering, and image sequencing, transformed architectural publishing, positioning the book as a milestone in graphic design as well as architectural discourse. In 2025, S, M, L, XL continues to be studied for its experimental format and its synthesis of narrative, theory, and practice. It remains essential for understanding how architecture can function as a cultural document- responsive to political, technological, and environmental forces- and for how collaborative authorship between architect and designer can redefine the limits of the architectural book itself.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Silver leatherette-covered boards with title stamped in black and yellow on cover and spine; no dust jacket as issued. Collaboration between Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau. Edited by Jennifer Sigler. Photographs by Hans Werlemann. Designed by Bruce Mau Design, Inc., Bruce Mau with Kevin Sugden, and Nigel Smith, Greg van Alstyne, Alison Hahn and Chris Rowat. 1375 pp., with four color plates throughout. 9-3/8 x 7-3/8 inches. Fine. From the publisher: "This massive book is a novel about architecture. Conceived by Rem Koolhaas -- author of Delirious New York -- and Bruce Mau -- designer of Zone -- as a free-fall in the space of the typographic imagination, the book's title, Small, Medium, Large, Extra-Large, is also its framework: projects and essays are arranged according to scale. The book combines essays, manifestoes, diaries, fairy tales, travelogues, a cycle of meditations on the contemporary city, with work produced by Kookhaas's Office for Metropolitan Architecture over the 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.".