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The House of Doctor Koolhaas
- First volume in the highly anticipated new Gumshoe series of architectural books, introducing a new approach to the writing of architectural history
- Gumshoe’s focus is on buildings rather than theories or speculative projects
- Distinguished authors from various countries write on notable buildings from across architectural history
- Each volume investigates a singular building, emulating the style and book format of a detective novel
Gumshoe is new series of architectural books, introducing a new approach to the writing of architectural history. It returns the focus of architectural discourse back onto buildings, in a style and form that is original and scholarly but also easy and enjoyable to read. It emulates the detective novel – a form of writing beloved by many, but also one that has enjoyed a parallel academic life in disciplines and by writers as diverse as psychoanalysis (Sigmund Freud), film (Sigfried Kracauer), and art history (Carlo Ginzburg) — but, significantly, not yet by architecture. Each volume will investigate a singular building as if it were a mystery waiting to be solved.
Written by distinguished French architectural critic and historian Françoise Fromonot, the first case — The House of Doctor Koolhaas — is about the Villa dall’Ava, a private residence in Saint-Cloud, a suburb of Paris. Fromonot brilliantly unpicks, explains and interprets the very first building completed by Rem Koolhaas, who is universally regarded as the world’s most celebrated architect, and his Rotterdam-based firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture.
- Publisher
- Park Books
- ISBN
- 9783038604075
- Publish date
- 13th Jan 2025
- Binding
- Paperback / softback
- Territory
- World excluding Austria, France, Germany, Switzerland, Puerto Rico, United States, Canada, and Japan
- Size
- 175 mm x 110 mm
- Pages
- 224 Pages
- Illustrations
- 150 b&w
- Name of series
- Gumshoe
Distributed by ACC Art Books
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