looking for a higher level of theoretical input in the project. [...] Oma wants to go a step further in terms of really original ideas, pushing the local context, thinking about architecture.” – Abjihit AY 44
the creator but the critic. In our way of working, the important person is the one who is shown various options and then makes a critical decision.” – Rem Koolhaas DZ
but they duty to turn ideas into prototypes. You won’t be told what to make, but if what you’ve made isn’t beautiful, intelligent and innovative you’re not done yet.
interpret and to repeat, to redefine and reassemble. In this process of doing this, new ideas spark the designers’ imagination, new shapes emerge.” AY 95
be perspex and foam models for dozens of projects - but close up you see they’re all clearly the same site, a masterplan in Moscow, modelled over and over again, with different arrangements and relationships of buildings. 146 WW
big ideas, a concept book made by OMA restages moments of office life on its pages and re-enacts the main design events that made this building possible.” AY 74
of creativity for a longer period of time; de-archiving them meant they could rediscover those traces of design invention that time had left intact.” AY 65
Architecture: An Ethnography of Design Daniel Zalewski Intelligent Design – Can Rem Koolhaas kill the skyscraper http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/03/14/050314fa_fact_zalewski William Wiles – Inside OMA, ICON 100