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The House of Doctor Koolhaas: Gumshoe #1 Volume 1

The House of Doctor Koolhaas: Gumshoe #1 Volume 1

Fromonot, Françoise
Weaver, Thomas

Paperback

Series: The Gumshoe

Gifts & Stationery GeneralArchitectsArchitecture History

ISBN10: 3038604070
ISBN13: 9783038604075
Publisher: Park Publishing (WI)
Published: Sep 3 2025
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.87 Width: 4.33 Depth: 6.85
Language: English
Investigates the history of the Villa dall'Ava in the playful style of a detective novel.

Gumshoe is a new series of architectural books that introduces an original approach to the writing of architectural history. It returns the focus of architectural discourse back onto buildings in a style and form that is fresh and scholarly but also easy and enjoyable to read. It emulates the detective novel--a form of writing beloved by many, but also one that has enjoyed a parallel academic life in disciplines and by writers in fields as diverse as psychoanalysis (Sigmund Freud), film (Sigfried Kracauer), and art history (Carlo Ginzburg)--but, significantly, not yet by architecture. Each volume will investigate a singular building as if it were a mystery waiting to be solved.

Written by distinguished French architectural critic and historian Françoise Fromonot, the first case--The House of Doctor Koolhaas--is about the Villa dall'Ava, a private residence in Saint-Cloud, a suburb of Paris. Fromonot brilliantly unpicks, explains, and interprets this very first building completed by Rem Koolhaas, who is universally regarded as the world's most celebrated architect, and his Rotterdam-based firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture. The house is resolutely part of a modern architectural canon, but until now has not been the focus of a dedicated book or analysis.

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