''S,M,L,XL'' () is a book by
Rem Koolhaas
Remment Lucas Koolhaas (; born 17 November 1944) is a Dutch architect, architectural theory, architectural theorist, urbanist and Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Graduate School of ...
and
Bruce Mau, edited by Jennifer Sigler, with photography by Hans Werlemann.
Overview
The book was first published by
Monacelli Press in 1995 in New York and 010 Publishers in Rotterdam. It is a 1376-page-long collection of essays, diary excerpts, travelogues, photographs,
architectural plan
In architecture and building engineering, a floor plan is a technical drawing to scale, showing a view from above, of the relationships between rooms, spaces, traffic patterns, and other physical features at one level of a structure.
Dimensio ...
s,
sketches and cartoons produced by the
Rotterdam
Rotterdam ( , ; ; ) is the second-largest List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city in the Netherlands after the national capital of Amsterdam. It is in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of South Holland, part of the North S ...
-based
Office for Metropolitan Architecture
The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) is an international architectural firm with offices in Rotterdam, New York, Hong Kong, Doha, and Australia. The firm is currently led by eight partners - Rem Koolhaas, Reinier de Graaf, Ellen va ...
(founded by Koolhaas) in the twenty years prior to publication. The second edition () was published in 1997, printed and bound in Italy, and has the name Rem Koolhaas printed in orange ink on the cover unlike the original which was printed in yellow. The third, special edition () was published in December 1998, printed and bound in Italy, and has the name Rem Koolhaas printed in blue ink on the cover. The book weighs .
Reception
The book became immediately popular, selling all the 30,000 copies of the first edition within months
[Robin Kinross and Linda Eerme: ''The architects of the book'', 22 May 2002](_blank)
/ref> while it was counterfeited in China.Justin McGuirk: ''Tomes, sweet tomes: how Rem Koolhaas re-engineered the architecture book''
in The Guardian
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, 17 May 2010 The second edition printed in 70,000 copies has been subsequently exhausted as well.
See also
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Disneyland with the Death Penalty
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", an article on Singapore critiqued by Koolhaas in the book
References
1996 anthologies
Architecture books
Essay anthologies
Books by Rem Koolhaas
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