# De Rotterdam...

By [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com) · 2016-05-07

architect, architect-this-city, architectural-review, architectural-theory, architecture, atc, athiscity, cities, de-rotterdam, development, hyper-density, new-york, office-of-metropolitan-architects, oma, ossip-van-duivenbode, real-estate, rem-koolhaas, rotterdam, the-architectural-review, the-rotterdam, theory, uncategorized, urban-density, urbanism

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“Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan condition – hyper-density – without once losing faith in it as the basis for a desirable modern culture. Manhattan’s architecture is a paradigm for the exploitation of congestion.” 

_\-_[_Rem Koolhaas_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rem_Koolhaas)_, Delirious New York, 1978_  

_Image: De Rotterdam by photographer Ossip Van Duivenbode via_ [_The Architectural Review_](http://www.architectural-review.com/today/blank-account-de-rotterdam-by-oma-in-rotterdam-netherlands/8659225.fullarticle)

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*Originally published on [Brandon Donnelly](https://brandondonnelly.com/de-rotterdam)*