Written in 1978, Delirious New York has been called the end of architectural utopias, celebrating congestion, fantasy, ambivalence and the confrontation of high and low cultures. It also invented a new genre of architectural writing which was to take the world by storm.
Panel of critics:
Mark Wigley, Dean of Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation,
Columbia University, New York, and provocative architectural critic
Alejandro Zaera-Polo, principal of Foreign Office Architects (former student of Koolhaas)
David Greene, Archigram
Chaired by Paul Finch, editor of The Architectural Review