Delirious New York : a retroactive manifesto for Manhattan /
Rem Koolhaas.
- New ed.
- 317 p. ill. (some col.) 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 313-316).
Prehistory -- Coney Island: the technology of the fantastic -- The double life of Utopia: the skyscraper. The frontier in the sky ; The skyscraper theorists ; The lives of a block: the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel and the Empire State Building ; Definitive instability: the Downtown Athletic Club -- How perfect perfection can be: the creation of Rockefeller Center. The talents of Raymond Hood ; All the Rockefeller Centers ; Radio City Music Hall: the fun never sets ; Kremlin on Fifth Avenue ; 2 Postscripts -- Europeans: Biuer! Dal� and Le Corbusier conquer New York -- Postmortem.
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Le Corbusier, 1887-1965
Rockefeller Center.
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