The House of Doctor Koolhaas

Françoise Fromonot, Thomas Weaver

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Park Books
24 June 2025

History of architecture

Series: Gumshoe

Investigates the history of the Villa dall'Ava in the playful style of a detective novel.

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 Françoise 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.

AUTHORS: Françoise Fromonot is Professor of Design, History and Theory at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Paris-Belleville, and William Wayne Caudill Professor of Architecture at Rice Architecture Paris. Thomas Weaver is an architectural writer, educator, and editor, and a lecturer at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, Switzerland.

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First volume in the highly anticipated new Gumshoe series of architectural books, introducing a new approach to the writing of architectural history .

Gumshoe's focus is on buildings rather than theories or speculative projects .

Distinguished authors from various countries write on notable buildings from across architectural history .

Each volume investigates a singular building, emulating the style and book format of a detective novel

150 b/w illustrations

By: Françoise Fromonot
Edited by: Thomas Weaver
Imprint: Park Books
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Dimensions: Height: 175mm, Width: 110mm,
Weight: 185g
ISBN: 9783038604075
ISBN 10: 3038604070
Series: Gumshoe
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 24 June 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Françoise Fromonot is Professor of Design, History and Theory at the École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-Belleville, and William Wayne Caudill Professor of Architecture at Rice Architecture Paris. Thomas Weaver is an architectural writer, educator, and editor, and a lecturer at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, Switzerland.

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The House of Doctor Koolhaas

Françoise Fromonot, Thomas Weaver

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