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18 – Junkspace – Rem Koolhaas & the End of Architecture

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Defirious New York - The Ideology of Building Manhattan

Junk space is not quite a retroactive manifesto, but it does try to define a sort of implicit philosophy and set of qualities. It's an exercise of like, if a kind of hysterical avant-gardeist of the early 20th century was going to propose Manhattan as an idea,. how would they describe what it's going to be like and why you would do it? And delirious New York is sort of that, really.

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