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- Return from the FutureThe Concept of Retroactivity
- Abstract
- Koolhaas called his 1978 book Delirious
New York a ‘retroactive manifesto for
Manhattan’. In her essay Angelika Schnell
describes how the concept of retroactivity
is used in the architecture of OMA. Especially
the high-rise project for Boompjes in
Rotterdam, made between 1979 and 1981,
is a design that ‘has become effective at a
time in the past’. A careful reading of the
accompanying text, but also the features
of the design itself, reveal the circular logic
of the hermeneutical model used by Koolhaas:
designs are the stories that provoked
the causes in the past.
- Citation
- Schnell, A. (2015). Return from the Future. The Concept of Retroactivity. OMA. The First Decade, OASE, (94), 30–34. Retrieved from https://www.oasejournal.nl/en/Issues/94/ReturnFromTheFuture
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