| Description |
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color), plans (some color), portraits (some color) ; 29 cm |
| Summary |
Well into its fourth decade, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), founded by Rem Koolhaas in 1975, remains one of the most influential and successful practices of its kind. OMA describes itself as "a firm operating within the traditional boundaries of architecture and urbanism that applies architectural thinking to domains beyond." OMA New York, has grown from an American outpost to a full-fledged operation with its own attitudes, contributing to the evolution of the globally acclaimed office. Through a diversity of projects, the firm has transformed our understanding of the city and our evolving relationship with art, fashion, food, sustainability, and other quintessentially twenty-first-century preoccupations. The works presented here elaborate on OMA's philosophy even as they expand its portfolio geographically. Featured projects (led by partners Shohei Shigematsu and Jason Long) include residential skyscrapers in New York, Miami, and San Francisco, mixed-use developments in cities from Tokyo to Houston, and projects like 11th Street Bridge Park in the public realm, alongside more intimate spaces such as the studio for renowned Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang. Permanent structures, such as Milstein Hall at Cornell University, the new galleries of Quebec's Musée National des Beaux-Arts, a cultural forum and neighborhood for Faena in Miami, and the expansion of museums such as the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo and the New Museum in Manhattan, contrast vividly with temporary interventions such as the Manus x Machina exhibition at the Met Costume Institute and the sculptural installation of soaring concrete columns for An Occupation of Loss |
| Notes |
Unpaginated. Numbers in table of contents refer to the sequence of illustrations, many of which are thumbnails with dozens per page, totalling 5565 |
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Includes interviews by Shohei Shigematsu or Jason Long with Chris Hawthorne, Lisa Phillips/Massimiliano Gioni, Taryn Simon, Iris van Herpen, Virgil Abloh, David Byrne, Alice Waters, and Cecilia Alemani |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Office for Metropolitan Architecture
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Office for Metropolitan Architecture -- Pictorial works
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Architecture, Modern -- 21st century
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Architecture, Modern -- 21st century -- Pictorial works
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| Genre/Form |
Pictorial works.
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| Author |
Shigematsu, Shohei, interviewer
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Long, Jason (Architect), interviewer
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Hawthorne, Christopher, interviewee
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Phillips, Lisa, 1954- interviewee
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Gioni, Massimiliano, interviewee
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Simon, Taryn, 1975- interviewee
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Herpen, Iris van, 1984- interviewee
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Abloh, Virgil, 1980-2021, interviewee
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Byrne, David, 1952- interviewee
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Waters, Alice, interviewee
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Alemani, Cecilia, interviewee
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Office for Metropolitan Architecture, author, issuing body
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| ISBN |
9780847869206 |
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0847869202 |
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