S M L XL

S,M,L,XL offers a concise yet inventive survey of the first twenty years of work by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.) and its founder Rem Koolhaas, bringing together visionary projects and critical, often poetic texts. Created with designer Bruce Mau, the book combines architectural works, images, sketches, narrative fragments, and essays on contemporary architecture and society.

Structured by scale, Small and Medium address domestic and public spaces, Large examines “the architecture of Bigness,” and Extra-Large focuses on the urban dimension, including the key essay What Ever Happened to Urbanism?. A recurring “dictionary” runs through the book, developing a distinctive Koolhaasian language drawn from diverse cultural, artistic, and architectural references.

ISBN : 978-1-88525-486-3