Seventeen years after publishing his thoughts on 'Junkspace' in October Journal, Rem Koolhaas is seeing his theories reprised through an unexpected medium. The Tempers, the New York-based Synth-pop band, dedicated their latest album to Koolhaas' cynical paper in which he defined much of contemporary architectural production and consumption as Junkspace, the "residue mankind leaves on the planet."

The music video for The Tempers' song, Love at the Mall, begins with a clip of Koolhaas speaking in an interview about the text: "The essence of shopping is to eliminate reality as much as possible." It then follows the loose narratives of CGI mannequins, plastic flamingoes and synthetic palm trees in a sparse mall setting, adopting several of the themes of Koolhaas' text, such as alienation, conspicuous consumption and artificiality.

Other songs on the album, including Air Conditioner, Desire and All That is Solid Melts into Air dive deeper into the essay, each one featuring insights from the architect and theorist on the contemporary condition.