Records of the Ordinary— Enrique Walker

This book compiles four conversations with Rem Koolhaas, Denise Scott Brown, and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto. Since the beginning of this century, the discipline of architecture has vehemently focused its attention on documenting the contemporary urban condition. Every city has been examined as a repository of architectural concepts, questioned as an urban manifesto, and recorded as a series of found objects. Records of the Ordinary articulates a potential genealogy for this practice and for the genre of books derived from it, and is also part of the project that Enrique Walker compiled in the book The Ordinary (Editorial Gustavo Gili, Barcelona, 2010). Organized around conversations with the authors of three fundamental texts that document the city —Rem Koolhaas with Delirious New York, Denise Scott Brown with Learning from Las Vegas, and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto with Made in Tokyo—, this volume traces the history of these "books about cities" by examining the material they recorded, the findings they established, the arguments they formulated, and the projects they promoted. These conversations also question the assumptions underlying this practice, and whether, in its ubiquity, it still offers a space of opportunity.

No. Pages: 100 / Size: 11 x 18 cm
ISBN: 9788494969447