《Rem Koolhaas: Elements of Architecture》简介：

Derived from Rem Koolhaas’s much-lauded exhibition at the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale, this is a primordial toolkit to understanding all the essential elements of structures around the globe. Conceived by Koolhaas himself, this guide is long overdue: in his own words, “Never was a book more relevant—at a moment where architecture as we know it is changing beyond recognition.”

《Rem Koolhaas: Elements of Architecture》摘录：

The biotopological floor in Arakawa and Gin's Bioscleave house (2007) is an undulating terrain with one-meter high hills and hundreds of small bumps like large stepping stones in a genkan. For their Reversible Destiny Foundation (perhaps as ambitious as it was clownish), the designers made spaces that, they hoped, would cause the body to stop aging. Rather than the perfectly flat floors of one-story buildings typically recommended for the elderly, the biotopological floor was designed to defamiliarize walking, put users off-balance and even cause them fall. In We Have Decided Not to Die, a catalogue for their Guggenheim exhibition of 1997, Arakawa and Gins wrote, "Comfort, the thinking goes, is a precursor to death; the house is meant to lead its users into a perpetually tentative relation...