Junkspace first appeared in the Harvard Design School Guide to
Shopping (2001), a vast compendium of text, images, and data concerning
the consumerist transformation of city and suburb from the first
department store to the latest mega mall. The architect Rem Koolhaas
itemized in delirious detail how our cities are being overwhelmed. His
celebrated jeremiad is updated here and twinned with Running Room, a
fresh response from the cultural critic Hal Foster. Junkspace
describes the bleak and featureless world of capitalism, while Running
Room seeks to find a space within the junk in which the individual
might still exist.