Yaneva, Albena.

Made by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture : an ethnography of design / Albena Yaneva.

Rotterdam : 010 Publishers, 2009.

111 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

"The book presents an ethnographic account of the design rhythm in the Office for Metropolitan Architecture. Written as a collection of short stories, it draws on the mundane trajectories of models and architects at the OMA and shows how innovation permeates design practice, how everyday techniques and workaday choices set new standards for buildings and urban phenomena. In these stories of invention the "Eureka!" moments are missing. They are replaced by routine gestures of model making, recycling, assembling, recollecting, rescaling. This enquiry on architecture-in-the-making is based on participant observation in the office of Rem Koolhaas, extensive interviews with architects, and photo documentation on various projects: the Seattle Public Library, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the China Central Television (CCTV) in Beijing, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), la Casa da Musica in Porto, and others."--Page 4 of cover

9789064507144
9064507147

Koolhaas, Rem 1944-
Office for Metropolitan Architecture.
OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture
Architectural design Netherlands Rotterdam.
Design architectural Pays-Bas Rotterdam.
Architectural design.
Architectural practice
Group work in architecture
Architecture, Modern 21st century.
Netherlands Rotterdam.

Office for Metropolitan Architecture

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 265539
Cote: BIB 197000
Statut: Disponible