OMA – Architecture and Construction Details breaks down the conceptual and technical processes behind one of the world's most influential architecture practices, tracing how Rem Koolhaas and OMA translate intellectual rigour into built form.
About This Book
Few practices have reshaped architectural discourse as decisively as OMA – Office for Metropolitan Architecture. This monograph moves beyond the iconic image to examine the construction details, concepts, and processes that underpin OMA's output across several years of architectural production. Rather than a survey of finished buildings, it interrogates how ideas become structures: how OMA's theoretical positions are resolved at the level of material and assembly. For architects, designers, and students serious about understanding the relationship between architectural thinking and technical execution, this is essential reference material on one of the discipline's defining studios.
Key Features
- 176 pages of project concepts, construction techniques, and architectural process documentation
- Published by Detail, 9783955534981
What You'll Discover
- How OMA translates its intellectual architectural framework into resolved construction details
- The concepts and techniques behind multiple significant projects spanning several years of the practice's output
- Rem Koolhaas's approach to architecture as a form of critical urbanism, examined through built work rather than theory alone
- The processes by which one of architecture's most analytically driven offices moves from concept to physical realisation
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 176
- Dimensions: 320 x 230 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783955534981
- Publisher: Detail
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects and architecture students seeking technical insight into OMA's design process, and anyone studying the relationship between conceptual practice and construction detail at the highest level.