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Topic: RSS FeedHouse play.(house designed by architect Rem Koolhaas in Bourdeaux, France)
Artforum International, November, 1998 by Nesbit, Molly
The house designed by architect Rem Koolhaas and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Bourdeaux, France, embodies the complexity of spaces that come into being after perspective. Koolhaas, who argues that perspectives and projections are insignificant in architecture, created a house with three levels and with walls that seem to dissolve. The Bourdeaux house is structured based on the realms of light, air, durations and sensations.
Rem Koolhaas is identified with an architecture that addresses the city, or as he would say, bigness. He is probably better known to the art world for S, M, L, XL (1995), the fat brilliant book he did with Bruce Mau. Koolhaas is an architect much admired for his thinking, one about whom one speaks dramatically and justifiably of great...
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