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Rem Koolhaas as scriptwriter : OMA architecture script for West Berlin
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Title
Rem Koolhaas as scriptwriter : OMA architecture script for West Berlin / Helena Huber-Doudová.
ISBN
1000984141
1000984265
1003378285
9781000984149
9781000984262
9781003378280
9781032431130
9781032456997
Publication
"This book is the first survey of a new field in architecture theory: script writing. Architecture as Script Writing explores the intersection of architecture, film, and text using the example of the working method of scriptwriter, Rem Koolhaas, and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). This book argues that Koolhaas formulates his approach to architecture on the basis of the "written sketch" or script, and questions its transformations into built environment in the oeuvre of OMA. Divided into two parts, the first part is a theoretical outline that explores the notion of scriptwriting in film. It provides in-depth insights into the definition and historical evolution of the script-as a blueprint, Hollywood script, avant-garde script, storyboard, the relation to auteur theory, and the difference between the script and scenario. It surveys the first original script for the Exodus, of the Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture. The second part offers a unique perspective on the urban development of West Berlin, in which Koolhaas created a metropolitan script, or blueprint, that spans the period 1971 to 1989, from his first visit, to Berlin to the fall of the Berlin Wall. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of architectural theory, urban history and film studies"-- Provided by publisher.
New York : Routledge, 2024.
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1 online resource.
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Biographical / Historical Note
Helena Huber-Doudov ̀is curator of the Architecture Collection of the National Gallery Prague (NGP), Czech Republic. She is studying for her PhD in Art History at the University of Zurich. She is co-lead researcher of the Czech Science Foundation research on Women in Architecture (2021-2023).
Summary
This book is the first survey of a new field in architecture theory: script writing. Rem Koolhaas as Scriptwriter explores the intersection of architecture, film, and text using the example of the working method of scriptwriter, Rem Koolhaas, and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). This book argues that Koolhaas formulates his approach to architecture on the basis of the written sketch or script, and questions its transformations into built environment in the oeuvre of OMA. Divided into two parts, the first part is a theoretical outline that explores the notion of scriptwriting in film. It provides in-depth insights into the definition and historical evolution of the script - as a blueprint, Hollywood script, avant-garde script, storyboard, the relation to auteur theory, and the difference between the script and scenario. It surveys the first original script for the Exodus, of the Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture. The second part offers a unique perspective on the urban development of West Berlin, in which Koolhaas created a metropolitan script, or blueprint, that spans the period 1971-1989, from his first visit to Berlin to the fall of the Berlin Wall. This book will be of interest to researchers and students of architectural theory, urban history, and film studies.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Doudová, Helena. Rem Koolhaas as scriptwriter New York : Routledge, 2024
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 08, 2024
Series
Routledge research in architecture
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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