One and Two: A project for Art forum: Rem Koolhaas and the Harvard design school project on the city.

AT THE HARVARD DESIGN SCHOOL, HI-LO [C] ARCHITECT AND INTER-disciplinary smarty-pants Rem Koolhaas has a fiefdom where he and his Harvard [C] research elves crank out obese tomes mingling pedagogy and snazzy graphics. In a series studying "new, unknown, under-theorized, yet pervasive effects of modernization on the contemporary city," the Harvard Design School Project on the City has just brought out two new volumes, The Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping and Great Leap Forward.

The Guide to Shopping addresses the great stealth campaign of our day-no, not ...

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