S,M,L,XL

"Koolhaas is just the most brilliant architectural thinker and doer operating today and so I had to include him (this is the only ‘pure’ architecture book on my list, in fact). Although I question his recent political ambivalence, there are more ideas in this book, or even in one page of it, than there are in countless of those boring coffee-table monographs. The book assumes the status of an architectural project, crossing scales and modes of communication. One of the central ideas in the book is called ‘bigness’, which is the acceptance of bigness as a way of thinking about the world and the future. It’s the idea that what ‘bigness’ allows is a whole set of hybrid conditions and unexpected events to pop out, which are not allowed within classic, small, old-fashioned thinking."