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109 — Rem Koolhaas's Delirious New York — 2/3

About Buildings + Cities

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Visual Imagery and Reduction of Images in the Book

The speakers discuss the reduction of central images in a book and question why they were made smaller. They suggest creating a facsimile of the original edition and discuss a series of playful and satirical images depicting elements of New York City. They explain how these images condense the key ideas of the book while maintaining an ironic relationship to them.

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