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January 17, 2012
November 28, 2011
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    OMA/Paradox II
    How do you see yourself? How do you want others to see you? And how do others see you? In a packed Barbican Theatre Chris Dercon interviewed six of the seven OMA partners about OMA. Everyone on the stage, including the interviewer, did all they could to take the edge off the idea that OMA equals Rem Koolhaas, in what seemed like an attempt to cautiously prepare the world for a post-Koolhaas OMA.
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    Unas­ha­med cu­rio­sity com­pel­led me to pay £20 for a ti­cket to at­tend what was bil­led as the OMA Show & Tell: XL Ar­chi­tec­ture Night, a joint ap­pearance by all OMA part­ners in which they spoke in pu­blic about the or­ga­ni­sa­…

November 17, 2011
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    OMA/Paradox I
    The exhibition OMA/Progress runs until February 2012 at the Barbican Centre in London, a major retrospective which aims to be something else. The exhibition coincides with the opening of the first two buildings by OMA in Britain: the head office of N.M. Rothschild & Sons in the City of London, and Maggie’s Centre in Glasgow. Both the exhibition and the two buildings have been very well received by the British media, no doubt to the satisfaction of Koolhaas after forty years of effort here in London.
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    In an in­ter­view with The Guar­dian to co­in­cide with the ex­hi­bi­tion, Rem Kool­haas was asked how OMA had ma­na­ged to main­tain its cri­ti­cal po­si­tion over the years. To which he an­s­we­red: 'I am a cri­ti­cism ma­chine mys­elf, a…

September 7, 2011
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    Architecture or your life
    The exhibition ‘Double or Nothing’ in Bozar (Brussels) presents the work of Belgian office 51N4E. In his opening lecture Peter Swinnen offered the architectural public insight into the business ethics of this successful design firm.
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    The work of 51N4E rai­ses ques­ti­ons. Ar­chi­tec­tu­ral theo­re­ti­ci­ans are racking their brains about whe­ther their work is an­ec­do­tal or sin­gu­lar.* It would deny all his­tory and re­fuse to adopt any po­si­tion. This con­fu­sion in the r…

January 24, 2011
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    The provincial Rietveld
    As part of its Rietveld Year, the Centraal Museum in Utrecht is presenting an exhibition called Rietveld’s Universe, an incredibly ambitious title for an exhibition that is far too modest in comparison. Under the leadership of Ida van Zijl, the work of Rietveld has once again been dusted down in an attempt to correct the prevailing historiography. To that end, the NAi, Utrecht University and Delft University of Technology jointly set up a research project with a view to defining more precisely the position of Rietveld in relation to the history of modern architecture. And in particular to alter the perception that his contribution is limited to that one famous house and that one famous chair.
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    A swipe from the Bri­tish his­to­rian Ban­ham seems to have been one of the fac­tors that de­ter­mi­ned the di­rec­tion of the Rietveld’s Uni­verse pro­ject. For it was Ban­ham who asked how it was pos­si­ble that an 'unremarkable, provincial' fi­…

December 7, 2010
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    Necessity or convention? – West Arch at the Ludwig Forum
    The exhibition West Arch: A New Generation in Architecture has just ended. On show was the architecture of a self-conscious new generation, flourishing amidst the art of Richter, Warhol and Ai Weiwei. Not much sweet talking here; instead, a thirst for action sets the tone.
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    The green, star-shaped uri­nal blocks of the toi­lets at the Lud­wig Forum in Aa­chen may have been just a co­in­ci­dence, but they are very ap­pro­priate for what is hap­pe­ning one floor above. For the ground floor is the scene of a chan­ging of…

October 6, 2010
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    Anthropologist among architects
    An anthropologist among architects: that’s the most accurate description of Dutch architect Anne Feenstra. It took some time before Feenstra showed buildings and designs during his talk at ARCAM on August 17. First came portraits of people because, so he argued, architects should never forget who they build for. Or as fellow architect Rene van Zuuk: 'a building without people is only a building'.
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    Be­fore lea­ving for Af­gha­nis­tan, Fe­en­s­tra worked as an ar­chi­tect at the of­fices of, among others, OMA and Will Asop. In 2003 he es­ta­blis­hed his stu­dio, AFIR Ar­chi­tects, with of­fices in Kabul and Khulm in the north. He teaches ar­c…

March 23, 2010
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    Blue Foam
    Whole books have been filled in efforts to interpret the work of Rem Koolhaas. But according to Albena Yaneva of the Manchester School of Architecture, his work can only be understood through the design process that unfolds inside the office on Heer Bokelweg in Rotterdam.
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    Ac­cord­ing to Yaneva, ar­chi­tec­ture is all too often in­ter­preted in terms of the­o­ret­i­cal move­ments, the in­di­vid­ual back­ground of the ar­chi­tects, or the socio-cultural con­di­tions in which a build­ing is cre­ated. Yaneva sus­pected…

January 21, 2010
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    Regulations make the city or vice versa?
    Architecture bookshops are full of publications about fantastic architects, spectacular streets and extraordinary cities. Alex Lehnerer made a book about the regulations that shaped these cities, produced the streets, and guided the architects. Grand Urban Rules celebrates regulations as the ultimate instruments in shaping cities.
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    Grand Urban Rules, an adap­ta­tion of Alex Lehnerer’s doc­toral the­sis, con­sists of two parts. A graph­i­cal run-down of the 115 rules dis­cussed in the book, and a text di­vided into ten his­tor­i­cal the­matic chap­ters. Iso­lat­ing the…

March 19, 2009
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    Salt, reeds and dunes
    It’s not very often that Arcam invites a landscape architect to hold the monthly architecture lecture at the Brakke Grond. In an exciting presentation, Maike Van Stiphout outlined her view of the profession and explained why and how she works as a landscape architect.
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    For more than fif­teen years Maike van Stiphout and her of­fice DS land­schap­sar­chi­tecten have been work­ing on a wide range of land­scape com­mis­sions. Her port­fo­lio com­prises all scales in both urban and rural areas. She has worked on suc…

January 28, 2009
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    OMA wins competition in Taipei
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    The scheme in­cludes two the­atres seat­ing 800 guests and one seat­ing up to 1,500 which plug into a cen­tral cube, clad in cor­ru­gated glass, com­bin­ing the stage ac­com­mo­da­tions of the three the­atres in…
December 18, 2008
November 18, 2008
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    Iwan Baan – Exhibition of Recent Works at the AA in London
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    The ex­hi­bi­tion «Iwan Baan: Re­cent Works – Con­tem­porary Ar­chi­tec­tu­ral Photographs« is show­ca­sing re­cent ar­chi­tec­tu­ral pho­to­gra­phy by the Dutch pho­to­gra­pher Iwan Baan from 10th of No­vem­ber until the 10th of De­cem­ber. Iwan Baa…
October 1, 2008
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    Exhibition of Contemporary Unbuilt Architecture of London
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    Future Non-Future ex­hi­bits at AA Gal­lery do­zens of con­tem­porary urban, ar­chi­tec­tu­ral and land­scape projects for Lon­don. They all share one key fea­ture: they are, or cur­rently re­main, un­built. Fea­turing pro­po­sals by some of the worl…
September 1, 2008
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    Greetings from Istanbul
    'We have often witnessed peoples, societies and nations outside the Western world – and I can identify with them easily – succumbing to fears that sometimes lead them to commit stupidities, all because of their fears of humiliation and their sensitivities. I also know that in the West – a world with which I can identify with the same ease – nations and peoples taking an excessive pride in their wealth, and in their having brought us the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and Modernism, have, from time to time, succumbed to a self-satisfaction that is almost as stupid.' (Orhan Pamuk)
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    Is­tan­bul is, in­deed, the place for iden­ti­fy­ing with the beau­ties and stu­pidi­ties of dif­fer­ent worlds si­mul­ta­ne­ously. A time­less cliché, but true: Is­tan­bul is a cra­dle of du­al­i­ties. Here, not only East and West but also in­for…

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