The House of Doctor Koolhaas

di Françoise Fromonot (Autore)

Thomas Weaver (Curatore)

Park Books, 2025

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.

• Autore: Françoise Fromonot
• Curatore: Thomas Weaver
• Editore: Park Books
• Collana: Gumshoe
• Anno: 2025
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 224 p.
• Dimensioni: 175 x 110 mm
• Peso: 185 gr.
• EAN: 9783038604075

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