Junkspace with Running Room by Rem Koolhaas
InJunkspace(2001), architect Rem Koolhaas itemises in delirious detail how our cities are being overwhelmed. His celebrated jeremiad is here updated and twinned withRunning Room, a fresh response from architectural critic Hal Foster.
'The manifesto is a modernist mode, one that looks to the futureJunkspacemakes no such claim: Architecture disappeared in the twentieth century, states Koolhaas matter-of-factly.Junkspacedoes a harder thing: it foretells the present, which is to say that it calls on us to recognize what is already everywhere around us. Hal Foster