{"product_id":"9783038604075","title":"The House of Doctor Koolhaas by Francoise Fromonot","description":"Gumshoe is new series of architectural books, introducing a new approach to the writing of architectural history. It returns the focus of architectural discourse back onto buildings, in a style and form that is original and scholarly but also easy and enjoyable to read. It emulates the detective novel - a form of writing beloved by many, but also one that has enjoyed a parallel academic life in disciplines and by writers as diverse as psychoanalysis (Sigmund Freud), film (Sigfried Kracauer), and art history (Carlo Ginzburg) - but, significantly, not yet by architecture. Each volume will investigate a singular building as if it were a mystery waiting to be solved.   Written by distinguished French architectural critic and historian Fran?oise Fromonot, the first case - The House of Doctor Koolhaas - is about the Villa dall'Ava, a private residence in Saint-Cloud, a suburb of Paris. Fromonot brilliantly unpicks, explains and interprets the very first building completed by Rem Koolhaas, who is universally regarded as the world's most celebrated architect, and his Rotterdam-based firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56310834037109,"sku":"9783038604075","price":15.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9783038604075.jpg?v=1762815216","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9783038604075","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}