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疯狂的纽约 Delirious New York--rem koolhaas OMA领袖rem koolhaas著作《疯狂的纽约》Since its original publication in 1978, Delirious New York has attained mythic status. Back in print in a newly designed edition, this influential cultural, architectural, and social history of New York is even more popular, selling out its first printing on publication. Rem Koolhaass celebration and analysis of New York depicts the city as a metaphor for the incredible variety of human behavior. At the end of the nineteenth century, population, information, and technology explosions made Manhattan a laboratory for the invention and testing of a metropolitan lifestyle -- the culture of congestion -- and its architecture.　　　　 Manhattan, he writes, is the 20th centurys Rosetta Stone . . . occupied by architectural mutations (Central Park, the Skyscraper), utopian fragments (Rockefeller Center, the U.N. Building), and irrational phenomena (Radio City Music Hall). Koolhaas interprets and reinterprets the dynamic relationship between architecture and culture in a number of telling episodes of New Yorks history, including the imposition of the Manhattan grid, the creation of Coney Island, and the development of the skyscraper. Delirious New York is also packed with intriguing and fun facts and illustrated with witty watercolors and quirky archival drawings, photographs, postcards, and maps. The spirit of this visionary investigation of Manhattan equals the energy of the city itself.　《颠狂的纽约》（Delirious New York, 1978年）是库氏在大都会建筑学领域撰写的奇幻建筑小说,也是了解库哈斯城市理论的最重要的文献。这部集论文、方案、作品于一体而编织的美学文本，对当代大都市密集性文化现实进行超现实主义的批评。所谓超现实，就是脱离了普遍的理论论述结构。一般的理论模式都为：是什么（问题的本体论）----为什么（问题的研究方法论）----怎么办(问题的现实意义及解决方案)。从库哈斯的有关著作来看，她只注重了第一步骤的渲染和铺陈，偶尔涉及到第二点的研究方法论，而绝少提及第三点。这种似乎从记者生涯中养成的恣意文风形成了库哈斯的研究习惯。在对城市的认识的过程中，库哈斯的思考路径不是顺着建筑学的既定理论框架进行思考。而是从社会学的角度入手，诸如网络对社会形态的影响、新时代生活方式的变革、建筑不得不进行革命的必要性、对城市发展速度的思考、资本财富在城市进程中作用的再认识、建筑师的收入与建筑作品及建设速度之间的关系----包罗万象、不一而足。几乎我们一般接触到的新事物，都库哈斯被纳入了对建筑学的反思之中。这种反思构成了库哈斯理论的基础，所指者何并不唯一，分析视角时常变化，难免有极大的眩目感和跳跃性。从微观上讲，他要求建筑应对每种社会新问