Rem and Others on Rem

For background of my remarks on Rem on Rose, I note the book on
Rem's work from 1987 to 1993, very Euro-slickly manufactured
and beautifully dated modernist book design, and the latest ANY
titled "Urbanism vs Architecture", with emphasis on Rem.  Here
are the ANY contents:

Whatever Happened to Urbansim, by Rem Koolhaas.

Notes on Koolhaas and Modernization, by Jonathan Crary.

The Building, the Book, and the New Pastoralism, by Sanford
Kwinter.

Tourist's-Eye View:  Euraville, by Spencer Parsons.

Steps to Surfing or the Trajectory of Rem Koolhaas, by Charles
Jencks.

SaMuLai XyLograph, by Akira Suzuki.

The Camp of the New, by R. E. Somol.

Reflections on Transparency, by Terry Riley.

With features by Cynthia Davidson, Nina Hofer, Congrexpo,
Anthony Vidler and Michael Speaks.

Jencks piece is gritty; the others seem a bit on the side of
dutiful coverage of the Fall fad.

Vidler does a high-brow-silly "A REM-Based Program for
Interactive Architecture", a spoof of Rem's and Bruce Mau's "S,
M, K, XL", the humongous 1,376 page monster abirthing shortly.

This last is kind of like the word "Cyberspace" appearing over
Muschamp's column today which had the tiniest link to
cyberspace.  Smart guys finish dead last when they try to be
hiply out front.  I'm sure Herbert had nothing to do with the
headline, except maybe as a spoof of dim-bulb spoofs.