Junkspace

Is there a future for architecture? If so, it might begin with the meditations – by turns elegant and frantic – of Rem Koolhaas and Hal Foster. In Junkspace, Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas itemises in delirious detail how our cities are being overwhelmed in a brilliant performance that calls to mind other critical manifestos on the corruption of the marketplace by writers such as James Joyce, Don DeLillo and David Foster Wallace. Twinned here for the first time with the compelling essay Running Room, a response to Koolhaas, by celebrated cultural critic Hal Foster. Book