Explores the shifting definition of walls—from load-bearing stone fortifications to paper-thin drywall and glass partitions.
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The book's core is the exhaustive exploration of fifteen fundamental architectural elements. According to scholar Luis Fernández-Galiano, the decomposing of architecture into its constituent parts is a long-standing tradition, from the treatises of Vitruvius and Alberti to the Beaux-Arts teachings codified in the books of Durand and Guadet. Koolhaas’s list, however, is not a strict academic taxonomy but rather a "free-fall in the space of architectural imagination". rem koolhaas elements of architecture pdf work