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Rem Koolhaas: Delirious New York

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LOBOTOMY
Buildings have both an interior and an exterior.
In Western architecture there has been the humanistic assumption that it is desirable to establish a moral relationship between the two, whereby the exterior makes certain revelations about the intenor that the interior corroborates. The „honest” facade speaks about the activities it conceals.
But mathematically, the interior volume of three-dimensional objects increases in cubed leaps and the containing envelope only by squared increments: less and less surface has to represent more and more interior activity. …
In the deliberate discrepancy between container and contained New York's makers discover an area of unprecedented freedom. They exploit and formalize it in the architectural equivalent of a lobotomy – the surgical severance of the connection between the frontal lobes and the rest of the brain to relieve some mental disorders by disconnecting thought processes from emotions.
The architectural equivalent separates exterior and interior architecture. In this way the Monolith spares the outside world the agonies of the continuous changes raging inside it.
It hides everyday life.

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With the Equitable Building (1915) the process of reproduction loses its credibility through the grim deterioration – both financial and environmental – it inflicts on its surroundings. Its shadow alone reduces rents in a vast area of adjoining properties, while the vacuum of its intenor is filled at the expense of its neighbors. Its success is measured by the destruction of its context.

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Manhattan is the 20th century's Rosetta Stone.

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Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan condition – hyper·density – without once losing faith in it as the basis for a desirable modern culture. Manhattan's architecture is a paradigm for the exploitation of congestion.

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For the price of one, Thompson has created two distinct cities, each with its own character, its own life, its own inhabitants. Now the city itself is to be lived in shifts; the electric city, phantom offspring of the „real” City, is an even more powerful instrument for the fulfillment of fantasy.

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Where Luna insists on its otherworldIiness by claiming an outrageous alien location, Dreamland relies on a more subliminal and plausible dissociation: its entrance porches are underneath gigantic plaster-of-paris ships under full sail, so that metaphorically the surface of the entire park is "underwater:' an Atlantis found before it has ever been lost.

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In 1902 the Flatiron Building is a model of such sheer multiplicatlon 300 feet of upward extrusion – nothing more than 22 times its triangular site, made accessible by six elevators. Only its photogenic razor-blade elevation reveals It as the mutation it is: the earth reproducing itself. For seven years „the most famous building in the world” it is the first icon
of the double life of utopia.

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The Grid's two-dimensional discipline also creates undreamt of freedom for three-dimensional anarchy.

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With its imposition, Manhattan is forever immunized against- any (further) totalitarian intervention. In the single block – the largest possible area that can fall under architectural control – it develops the maximum unit of urbanistic ego.

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In 1626 Peter Minult buys the island Manhattan for 24 dollars from „the Indians.” But the transaction is a falsehood; the sellers do not own the property. They do not even live there. They are just visiting.

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