{"product_id":"junkspace-with-running-room-isbn-9781907903762","title":"Junkspace with Running Room","description":"\u003ci\u003eJunkspace \u003c\/i\u003efirst appeared in the \u003ci\u003eHarvard Design School Guide to Shopping \u003c\/i\u003e(2001), a vast compendium of text, images, and data concerning the consumerist transformation of city and suburb from the first department store to the latest mega mall. The architect Rem Koolhaas itemized in delirious detail how our cities are being overwhelmed. His celebrated jeremiad is updated here and twinned with \u003ci\u003eRunning Room\u003c\/i\u003e, a fresh response from the cultural critic Hal Foster. \u003ci\u003eJunkspace \u003c\/i\u003edescribes the bleak and featureless world of capitalism, while \u003ci\u003eRunning Room \u003c\/i\u003eseeks to find a space within the junk in which the individual might still exist.\u003ci\u003eJunkspace\u003c\/i\u003e is the most important piece of writing on architecture of the 21st Century. The stream of Koolhaas’s prose is akin to a visionary dream, a structureless sequence of crystalline insight and enfolding opiate fog. . . It is distinctly literary, and there are moments of outright genius.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eIcon\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFoster responds to Koolhaas with an argument for autonomy—both disciplinary (from one art to the next) and (by implication) personal—in order to find space (or the running room of the title) within the junk in which Koolhaas suggests we have drowned. And whether you are at an airport an art fair, that’s something we all need.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eArt Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRem Koolhaas’s luminescent essay\u003ci\u003e Junkspace\u003c\/i\u003e decries the mall as the slagheap of America...Koolhaas illuminates the dark underbelly of the kind of advanced capitalism living in the mall.\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eColumbia Review Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eRem Koolhaas \u003c\/b\u003eis a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist, and Professor in the Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. He has published works on the evolution of the contemporary metropolis and been responsible for landmark urban projects such as the Euralille development in northern France and the CCTV Tower in Beijing, and has designed master plans for, among other places, suburban Paris, the Libyan desert, and Hong Kong.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHal Foster \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of many books, including \u003ci\u003eDesign and Crime\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eProsthetic Gods\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Art-Architecture Complex\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe First Pop Age\u003c\/i\u003e. He writes regularly for \u003ci\u003eOctober \u003c\/i\u003e(which he co-edits), \u003ci\u003eArtforum\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e. He was the 2013 recipient of the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism. He lives in Princeton.","brand":"Notting Hill Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303847612645,"sku":"NP9781907903762","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781907903762.jpg?v=1767730554","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/junkspace-with-running-room-isbn-9781907903762","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}