Delirious New York. A retroactive manifesto for Manhattan, The Monacelli Press, New York, 1978.

Author(s): Rem Koolhaas

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Language : English

Medium : Book

Original edition of the manifesto: Delirious New York. A retroactive manifesto for Manhattan, The Monacelli Press, New York, 1978.

Where can we find this manifesto? Delirious New York. A retroactive manifesto for Manhattan, The Monacelli Press, New York, 1978. Danchev, Alex, 100 Artists' Manifestos. From the Futurists to the Stuckists, Penguin, Londres, 2011.

Link(s) to the manifesto: https://basemanart.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/Koolhaas_Rem_Delirious_New_York_A_Retroactive_Manifesto_for_Manhattan.pdf

Which critic recognizes the work as a manifesto ? or: Typical characteristics of a manifesto Danchev, Alex, 100 Artists' Manifestos. From the Futurists to the Stuckists, Penguin, Londres, 2011. (excerpt)

Editorial comments: In this text Rem Koolhaas introduces the notion of "retroactive manifesto"; the text doesn't really look like a manifesto, but it's claimed as a manifesto - a completely new form of manifesto - by the author since the title of the book.