Delirious New York A Retroactive Manifesto of Manhattan

Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto of Manhattan Rem Koolhaas 24. 04. 2016 ARCH 222 Presentation Yagmur G. Burhan

Rem Koolhaas • born in Rotterdam, 1944 • graduated from the Architectural Association in London • trained at Cornell University under Oswald Mathias Ungers His printed publications: • 1978 Delirious New York • 1995 S, M, L, XL • 2001 Mutations • 2004 Content • 2006 Junkspace • 2006 Post-Occupancy • 2010 Singapore Songlines • 2011 Project Japan • 2013 Junkspace with Running Room • 2014 Elements

OMA • Dutch architecture firm opened in London • Founded in 1975 by Rem Koolhaas, Elia Zenghelis, Zoe Zenghelis, Madelon Vriesendorp • practices architecture, urbanism and cultural analysis • first projects for New York AMO • research and design studio • works on media, politics, renewable energy, technology, publishing, fashion

Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto of Manhattan (1978) • Expanded version of an article in Architectural Design • Manifesto and Manhattan intersection: • Lack of evidence-Manifesto • No manifesto-Manhattan • Manhattan as an extended lobby • Times Square and its environment: a notoriously seedy neighbourhood • Manhattan- 20 th century’s Rosetta Stone

Hotel Spinx • Elie & Zoe Zenghelis • Times Square • Urban hotel, model for mass housing New Welfare Island (Roosevelt Island) • Rem Koolhaas, German Martinez, Richard Perlmutter • Manhattan grid • Manhattan’s dominant characteristic Welfare Palace Hotel • “A city within a city” • Looks toward Manhattan • Located at the bottom of the island

Manhattan and its; • Architectural mutations (Central Park, the Skyscraper) • Utopian fragments (Rockefeller Center, the UN Building) • Irrational phenomena (Radio City Music Hall) • Phantom architecture

Coney Island • Shift ftom real to synthetic • Strategies effected Manhattan • Overgrowth and limited sources

Skyscrapers • A Glorious Whole • Urbanistic approaches • innovations

Radio City Music Hall

Ectasy in architecture Density in Manhattan

Manhattan: The city of the captive globe Manhattanism

“Architecture is a dangerous mixture of power and impotence” Rem Koolhaas