Research Catalog

Title

Rem Koolhaas / OMA AMO : with / for Prada / Rem Koolhaas ; Benjamin Wilke, series editor.

Author

Koolhaas, Rem

Publication

Novato, California : Applied Research and Design Publishing, [2021]

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Additional Authors

Wilke, Benjamin

Description

323 pages : color illustrations, plans; 23 cm.

Summary

Source Books in Architecture No.14: Rem Koolhaas / OMA + AMO Spaces for Prada\u0027 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 OMA 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 OMA 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 OMA and Prada archives, transcripts from Koolhaas\u0027 conversations with students at the Knowlton School at The Ohio State University, and commentary and critique from architects, critics, and theorists.

Series Statement

Source books in architecture ; 14

Uniform Title

Source books in architecture ; 14.

Subject

• Koolhaas, Rem
• Office for Metropolitan Architecture
• Office for Metropolitan Architecture. AMO
• Prada (Firm)
• Fashion and architecture
• Fashion shows

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN

• 9781951541545
• 1951541545

LCCN

99989647812

OCLC

• on1231709105
• 1231709105

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries