S, M, L, XL

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Celebrating 30 years of the groundbreaking publication by iconoclastic architect Rem Koolhaas and designer Bruce Mau with a new edition collectible colorway

When S,M,L,XL was first published in 1995, no one had seen anything like it: a massive, nearly 1,400-page 'novel about architecture' presenting the visionary workof the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) and its acclaimed founder, Rem Koolhaas.

An inventive collaboration between Koolhaus and designer Bruce Mau, S,M,L,XL weaves together architectural projects with photos and sketches, diaries, travelogues, and fairy tales, as well as critical essays on contemporary architecture and society. S,M,L,XL is now considered one of the most influential architecture tomes of its era. To mark its thirtieth anniversary, this edition has a new collectible colorway.

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"A brick of a book ... This book tells a tale, a great contemporary architectural odyssey-the story of how this architect came to think big."

Author Bio

Rem Koolhaas is a founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), which has offices in Rotterdam, New York, Hong Kong, and Brisbane. OMA's iconic projects include: Fondazione Prada in Milan, the Leeum Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul, Beijing's CCTV Headquarters, and Seattle Central Library; OMA designed the forthcoming addition to the New Museum in New York. The firm's most important projects of its first twenty years - all of which are featured in S,M,L,XL - include the Kunsthal in Rotterdam; Nexus Housing in Fukuoka; the Dutch House in Holland; and Villa dall'Ava in Paris. Koolhaas won the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2000, directed the 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale, is the author of the seminal Delirious New York (Monacelli, 1997), and is a professor in practice of architecture and urban design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design.

Bruce Mau founded the critically acclaimed firm Bruce Mau Design in 1985. He is the author of Life Style (2000), Massive Change (2004), and MC24 (2020), all published by Phaidon.