{"id":700,"date":"2008-09-09T12:05:50","date_gmt":"2008-09-09T19:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/09\/the-house-that-kool-built\/"},"modified":"2008-09-09T12:05:50","modified_gmt":"2008-09-09T19:05:50","slug":"the-house-that-kool-built","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2008\/09\/09\/the-house-that-kool-built\/","title":{"rendered":"The House that Kool Built"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Times has an interesting interview with Rem Koolhaas, the Dutch architect who designed the much-lauded Seattle Central Library. He mentions his thoughts on the &#8220;book spiral&#8221;, saying: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; one of the points of a library was that there are accidents and that you find yourself in areas where you didn&#8217;t expect to be and where you kind of look at books that are not necessarily the books that you&#8217;re aiming for. So it was to create a kind of almost arbitrariness \u2014 or to create a kind of walking experience, an almost kind of urban walk &#8230; a kind of Rotterdam, a very efficient, direct aiming for limited destinations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/entertainment\/2008167399_remkoolhaas09.html\">Check it out<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Seattle Times has an interesting interview with Rem Koolhaas, the Dutch architect who designed the much-lauded Seattle Central Library. He mentions his thoughts on the &#8220;book spiral&#8221;, saying: &#8230; one of the points of a library was that there are accidents and that you find yourself in areas where you didn&#8217;t expect to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,15],"tags":[50,74,156,163,389,230,231,240,259],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}