Show Notes

Rem Koolhaas is nothing if not enigmatic, which makes him and his first major built work, the Villa dal’Alva, Paris (1990), an ideal first subject of the “Gumshoe” series of architectural mysteries. Cutting through the conventions of academic jargon and trade press, The House of Dr. Koolhaas reopens the “cold case” of Koolhaas and examines evidence in a pulp-detective novel format. Unfrozen turns the lamp back on writer/editor team Francoise Fromonot and Thomas Weaver.


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Intro/Outro: “Beancounter,” by the Cooper Vane


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Discussed:


Gumshoe Architectural Mystery Series


Thomas Weaver (AA Files)


Villa d’Alva, OMA


S, M, L, XL


Luis Bunuel


City of Glass by Paul Auster


Ways of Seeing by John Berger


Aramis, or the Love of Technology by Bruno Latour


The Purloined Letter by Edgar Allen Poe


Mannerism


Madelon Vreisendorp with Teri Wehn-Damisch: The Film of Delirious New York


Countryside, The Future


Dali’s paranoiac-critical method


Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye


Next up: Oscar Neimayer’s Communist Party Headquarters, Paris, by Littell Shaw


Then: The Parthenon


Then: Case Study House by Craig Ellwood


Poelzig’s I.G. Farben Building, Frankfurt


Raymond Chandler


James Ellroy