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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Project Without Form Oma: Rem Koolhaas and the 1989 Laboratorium

Project Without Form Oma: Rem Koolhaas and the 1989 Laboratorium

Schurk, Holger

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ISBN10: 3959053754
ISBN13: 9783959053754
Publisher: Spector Books
Published: Apr 26 2022
Pages: 460
Weight: 2.60
Height: 1.10 Width: 7.24 Depth: 10.63
Language: English

On a daring late-'80s experiment in form by Rem Koolhaas' Office for Metropolitan Architecture

In 1989, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture developed a new architectural typology helmed by the Dutch architecture firm's founder Rem Koolhaas (born 1944). The goal of this endeavor was to enact a project without form as part of an international competition to build a new national library in France. In the OMA laboratory in Rotterdam, experts from multiple different disciplines were able to work on this challenge at the same time. Within this experimental, multidisciplinary approach to design, the mechanisms of project development and knowledge acquisition merge into increasingly abstract systems of representation. The focus of the final design was the idea of the void, an absence of form: the solid square building would have gaps carved out of its exterior to represent the occasional rifts in memory inherent in human experience.

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