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18 – Junkspace – Rem Koolhaas & the End of Architecture

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Junk Space

Continuity is the essence of junk space. It exploits any invention that enables extension. The technology that he misses, which is one that so banal, is light. Electric light or industrial light of any form allows a plan to be so deep that you have no connection to the outside. His relationship with it is, I would say, that of a connoisseur. If you look in the inside front page of SML XL, it's got a graph of REMS Air miles and how many days a year he's travelling. When he... Travelling something like 280 days a year or something, towards the top of the graph. So yeah, he's just going from airport

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