Made by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture

an ethnography of design

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Albena Yaneva

Hardback | Juli 2009 |

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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.

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Auteur
Albena Yaneva
Uitgever
nai010 uitgevers/publishers
ISBN
9789064507144
Bindwijze
Hardback
Publicatiedatum
Juli 2009
Categorie
Wetenschappelijk
Taal
Engelstalig
Aantal Pagina's
120

Beschrijving

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.

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Specificaties

Auteur
Albena Yaneva
Uitgever
nai010 uitgevers/publishers
ISBN
9789064507144
Bindwijze
Hardback
Publicatiedatum
Juli 2009
Categorie
Wetenschappelijk
Taal
Engelstalig
Aantal Pagina's
120

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