Office for Metropolitan Architecture
The Office for Metropolitan Architecture ( OMA ) is the Rotterdam- based architectural office of the Dutch architect and Pritzker Prize winner Rem Koolhaas . OMA operates internationally and is one of the most renowned representatives of avant-garde contemporary architecture . Attached to the office is the think tank AMO, which works on projects beyond architecture and urban planning.
history
The office was founded in 1975 by Elia Zenghelis , his then student Rem Koolhaas and Madelon Vriesendorp and Zoe Zenghelis . In 1984 the headquarters of the office was relocated to Rotterdam . At times, Zaha Hadid and Kees Christiaanse were also employees and partners of the office. In 1987 Elia Zenghelis retired from the office.
Corporate structure
OMA is organized as an association of equal partners. The current partners are Rem Koolhaas, Reinier de Graaf , Ellen van Loon , Shohei Shigematsu , Iyad Alsaka, David Gianotten, Chris van Duijn, Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, Jason Long and Managing Partner Victor van Chijs. The office employs around 290 people from 45 countries. OMA has branch offices in Doha, Dubai, Beijing, Hong Kong, New York and Brisbaine, Australia.
architecture
The buildings and projects of the OMA are characterized by their conceptual approach, the drafts with extensive research, which are summarized in diagrams and often flow directly into the spatial concepts of the buildings. The diagram serves as a visualized research result to break down the complexity of the respective task to a conceptually usable level. It therefore not only serves as a means of communication, but is consciously used by OMA in the design process to generate concepts.
Formally, the earlier works of the office combine a collage-like way of thinking, which is often peppered with architectural quotes from classical modernism (for example, at the Villa Dall'Ava in Paris, ironic quotes can be found on Le Corbusier's icon Villa Savoye, also built in Paris ). A recurring element is also the spatial penetration, the dissolution of the rigid multi-storey building. At the Kunsthal in Rotterdam there are inclined planes and ramps that connect the floors with each other, at the Maison a Floirac an open elevator stamp that runs along a book wall several floors high becomes the central spatial element. At the Dutch Embassy, a spatial sculpture called Trajekt folds up to provide access through all floors, the hall of the Porto Opera House looks as if it was simply pushed through the sculptural massiveness of the building.
Realized structures (selection)
- 1987: Nederlands Dans Theater , The Hague
- 1987: Koolhaas House at Checkpoint Charlie , for the International Building Exhibition in Berlin
- 1988 Euralille , Lille
- 1989–1990: Bus stop with video screen, Groningen
- 1993: Kunsthalle , Rotterdam
- 1997: Educatorium , Utrecht
- 1991: Villa Dall'Ava , Saint-Cloud, Paris
- 1998: House in Floirac, Bordeaux
- 1998: Nexus Housing , Fukuoka
- 1998: Prada Epicenter Stores, Beverly Hills and New York
- 2002: Dutch Embassy Berlin
- 2002: Guggenheim Hermitage , Las Vegas
- since 2002: Zollverein World Heritage Site , Essen
- 2003: McCormick Tribune Campus Center (MTCC), Illinois Institute of Technology , Chicago
- 2004: The Seattle Public Library , Seattle
- 2005: Casa da Música , Porto , Portugal
- 2005: National University Museum of Art , Seoul, South Korea
- 2005: Draft of a new flag for the European Union (AMO, 2001–2005).
- 2011: Central Chinese Television Headquarters .
- 2013: The Interlace , Singapore
- 2015: Fondazione Prada , renovation and extensions in Milan .
- 2016: Timmerhuis, Rotterdam.
- 2016: Fondaco dei Tedeschi in Venice , renovation and conversion into a shopping center.
Awards
- 2004: RIBA Gold Medal (UK)
- 2005: Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture for the design of the new embassy of the Netherlands in Berlin .
Publications (selection)
- OMA and Bruce Mau, SML XL , Monacelli Press, New York 1995, ISBN 978-1-885254-01-6
- OMA, Content , Taschen Verlag, Cologne 2004, ISBN 978-3-8228-3070-3
- OMA, What is OMA? Considering Rem Koolhaas and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture , NAi Publishers, Rotterdam 2004, ISBN 978-90-5662-349-4
- OMA and Francois Chaslin, The Dutch Embassy in Berlin by OMA / Rem Koolhaas , NAi Publishers, Rotterdam 2004, ISBN 978-90-5662-356-2
- Koolhaas, Rem, Delirous New York - A retroactive manifesto for Manhattan , Aachen 1999, ISBN 978-3-931435-00-4
- Koolhaas, Rem (ed.); u. a., Colors , Birhäuser Basel, 2001, ISBN 978-3-7643-6569-1
- Koolhaas, Rem; Kwinter, Sanfort; u. a. (Ed.) Mutations , Actar Barcelona 2001, ISBN 978-84-95273-51-2
literature
- archplus 175, AMO projections . archplus 175 , Aachen, December 2005
- archplus 174, OMA projects . archplus 174 , Aachen, December 2005
- archplus 143, Die Moderne der Moderne , Aachen, October 1998
- el croquis 53 + 79, OMA / Rem Koolhaas 1987-1998 , Madrid 1998, ISSN 0212-5633
- el croquis 131 + 132, AMO / OMA Rem Koolhaas I 1996-2006 , Madrid 2006
- el croquis 133 + 134, AMO / OMA Rem Koolhaas II 1996-2007 , Madrid 2007
- Sinning, Heike, More is More: OMA / Rem Koolhaas , Wasmuth Verlag Tübingen 2001, ISBN 978-3-8030-0607-3
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ OMA: Office. OMA website, accessed July 16, 2017; Information about employees including interns.
- ↑ Photos on architecture in berlin.com - Rem Koolhaas / OMA - Haus Am Checkpoint Charlie
- ↑ OMA presents master plan for Zeche Zollverein. BauNetz, February 21, 2002.
- ↑ Site development: new buildings and maintenance of existing buildings until 2020. ( Memento of the original from August 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Zollverein Foundation, accessed on July 16, 2017.
- ^ A laboratory for the future of our metropolitan people in FAZ from April 25, 2016, page 14
