Friday, March 07, 2008

Delirious



Perusing the filmography in the back of the Russ Meyer biography Big Bosoms and Square Jaws, it transpires that a Top Celebrity Architect and Urbanist had an interest in hyperactive All-American grotesquerie, not to mention the category of the 'cantilevered', that extended beyond the architectural. Rem Koolhaas collaborated on a script entitled Hollywood Tower, which was considered and rejected by the great man. Whether this was inspired by Meyer's long-lost short film Skyscrapers and Brassieres is unknown...(he expands upon it a bit here.)

2 Comments:

Blogger Murphy said...

You didn't know? Koolhaas is a journalist by blood. If he was British he'd be from Muswell Hill and would be writing a blog about his gap year in India...

9:46 am  
Blogger owen hatherley said...

No no, this exemplifies the side of Koolhaas I like, the perverse grand guignol hyper-americanism, not the sick-making Lagos-is-so-vibrant slum got so much soul bullshit or the 'critical' prog projects for China and Dubai...

4:47 pm  

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