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A Guide to Ecstacity
A Guide to Ecstacity
Author: Nigel Coates, Marcus Field, Brian Hatton, Theodore Zeldin, Nigel Coates, Marcus Field, Brian Hatton, Theodore Zeldin
Monograph, manifesto, travelog, history, autobiography, novel--A Guide to Ecstacity is a bit of all of these things. The brainchild of British architectural visionary Nigel Coates, it asks us to reimagine the city as a dynamic hybrid of inventive design and cross-cultural political empowerment. Produced in the spirit of Rem Koolhaas's ...  more », it is a palimpsest of the real and the hypothetical, with fragments of seven cities from around the world--Cairo, London, Mumbai, New York, Rio, Rome, and Tokyo--woven together into one multifaceted urban fabric.

In addition to extensive documentation of architecture and product design by Coates's own groundbreaking firm--Branson Coates Architecture--A Guide to Ecstacity features projects by Norman Foster, Future Systems, Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Rem Koolhaas, Daniel Libeskind, Philippe Starck, and Bernard Tschumi. Presented in a remarkable package created by the design firm Why Not Associates in close collaboration with Coates, these varied works form a fascinating kaleidoscope of metropolitan culture and suggest how the city of tomorrow might be transformed by a proactive architectural community that embraces the challenge of designing for a multicultural world.
ISBN-13: 9781568984247
ISBN-10: 1568984243
Publication Date: 10/2003
Pages: 454
Edition: Multilingu
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Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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