Koolhaas Rem - Source Books In Architecture No. 14 Rem Koolhaas Oma + Amo / Spaces For Prada - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Source Books in Architecture No.14: Rem Koolhaas / OM a + AMO Spaces for Prada is the most recent volume in the Source Books in Architecture series. Among the topics discussed in the book are the longstanding relationship with Prada and how the early objectives in that relationship have both maintained and shifted. An underlying theme to the conversations held with students and faculty of the Knowlton School community is the topic of architect client relationships their history their problems and how they have contributed to the discipline over time. Explicitly a focus of the conversation is on a number of projects that OM a has developed or completed with Prada a large number of which are installation scale environments that manifest in the form of runway shows and exhibitions. The challenge of such projects is to retain a commitment to the political and cultural agenda that OM a embeds in the larger and permanent buildings. Given the ephemerality and role of these environments as literal backgrounds to highlighted events the projects are ideal scenarios in which to develop an architecture that lacks the permanence of buildings while still carrying potency and contributing to larger cultural discussions involving for example event place concept product staging the crowd lighting and materiality. Source Books in Architecture No.14 contains project documentation from the OM a and Prada archives transcripts from Koolhaas conversations with students at the Knowlton School at The Ohio State University and commentary and critique from architects critics and theorists.
Title: Source Books In Architecture No. 14 Rem Koolhaas Oma + Amo / Spaces For Prada
Author(s): Koolhaas Rem
Publisher: Oro Editions
Barcode: 9781951541545
Pages: 328 Pages, 530 Halftones, Color
Publication Date: 10/12/2021
Series: Source Books in Architecture
Category: Professional Interior Design