Modernisms alchemistic promise to transform quantity into quality through abstraction and repetition has been a failure, a hoax. As if the people suddenly accessed the private quarters of a dictator, junkspace is best enjoyed in a state of postrevolutionary gawking. Delirious new york and junk space, though he barely relates him. The best reason to broach bigness is the one given by climbers of mount everest. Junkspace is what remains after modernization has run its course or, more precisely, what coagulates while modernization is in progress, its fallout. Garage presents junkspace, a publication comprising three essays by rem koolhaas. The shoppers and travel ers, convention goers and gamblers, have landed in junkspace. Polarities have mergedthere is nothing left between desolation and frenzy. In these three essays, the famous architect rem koolhaas presents a critique of contemporary urbanism and city building. Beyond a certain scale, architecture acquires the properties of bigness. Junkspace with running room by rem koolhaas, hal foster. Junkspace is a rambling, brilliant lamentation on the death of architecture by rem koolhaas, a starchitect who actively participated in its demise.
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