Rem Koolhaas's 'Delirious New York' - AB+C 108 - 1/3

[@Dev1nci]

12:55 I think this reading of Koolhaas' reasoning is evident in his architecture as well. I call it 'brief engineering' and was evident to us in first year which motivated my classmate to ask if Rem would throw his plans away if his functionalist approach lead him to a square box. At worst light hypocrisy I think, perhaps it's a rhetoric to motivate his clients to spend more.

[@landrover153]

A small but important note. The photo at 41:13 of the Flatiron Building, taken in 1904 by Edward Steichen, was taken on a rainy night, not in the smog.

[@nopenope3416]

1:09:35 This story of a boss going up and down with an elevator office to check on employees is completely true. Tom Scott, youtuber, did a video on such a topic.

[@richardkennedy8481]

The office in an elevator must be from some other movie.

[@nopenope3416]

45:15 The skyscrapers do generally look like chairs or thrones.

[@NetKingCol]

"Sort of kind of like..."

[@joaodelgado6696]

the map you show at 8:15 of "new amsterdam" was copied from a map of Lisbon of 1598 ny Braun and Hogenberg!!! It is not in fact New York as Koolhaas speculated, it's on the other sidfe of the Atlantic