Koolhaas' Style

When I first began reading Junkspace, I was confused by what Koolhaas was getting at. It seemed like a long string of run on sentences and rambles with no connecting idea except for the word “Junkspace”. After reading it through, I appreciate what he did with his style. It felt like being in the atmosphere and environment that he describes as I continued to read. The way he goes from one description to another shows how this space is almost a continuous growth which is ever expanding. When will it end? It eventually did, but it was like travelling on a sprawling path which was both horrific and intriguing.

His essay has no set hierarchy which is evident by his lack of using paragraphs.,except for a winding trail of descriptions that have no rational course. They simply blend and mesh into each other. This is really what I found powerful about the text. It wasn’t simply what he was saying, but how he was saying it that made it an effective way to showcase a complex environment that we simply cannot rationalize or understand in it entirety.

Some things that I thought about while reading the text was how the physical world is a manifestation of unseen forces. In Junkspace, it is the commercialism and globalism of the world which has striped us of identity and has cheapened things that were once held in a sacred place. Its outward appearance reveals the reality behind the physical.