InJunkspace (2001), architect Rem Koolhaas inemised in delirious detail how our cities are being overwhelmed. His celebrated jeremiad is here twinned withRunning Room, a set of new variations on the theme, by cultural critic Hal Foster.
‘The manifesto is a modernist mode, one that loooks to the future… Junkspace makes no such claim: “Architecture disappeared in the twentieth century,” states Koolhaas matter-of-factly.Junkspace does a harder thing: it “foretells” the present, which is to say that it calls on us recognize what is already everywhere around us’ – Hal Foster
