Rem Koolhaas (Class notes)

Being an architect

OMA (largely based on process)

·      Writing

·      Research/diagrams

·      Models

REM KOOLHAAS :

Delirious New York (1978)

·      Manhattan’s grid led to important role of connections within the city?

PARC DE LA VILLETTE (1982)

·      Continuous field - non-plate diagram

photo taken from http://france-for-visitors.com/photo-gallery/paris/parks-and-gardens/parc-de-la-villette.html

IIT McCormick Campus center (1999)

·      Utilizing the common spaces to incorporate sensuality experience and the spatial reality

photo taken from http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/EoeSLEIa2oL0TWD59ybIZw

Process of developing ideas and designs in architecture is generally “slow”.

OMA AMO 

-not about building>people density-space

CONTENTS

·      socio/political/cultural/economics discussions of the works he done over the years.

·      Importance/intensity of making models

Y2K House (1999)

Casa Da Musica (2005)

CCTV & OMA

·          Exposing rather than imposing iconic symbols onto the building by uncovering the structures that form the building by removing the redundant materials (steels) and those fundamental structural beams and steels are revealed as the cover of the building.

PRADA TRANSFORMER


GOVERNORS ISLAND (Rex architects) 2008

·         As a development strategy not landscape proposal?