TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yaneva,Albena
TI  - Made by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture: an ethnography of design 
SN  - 9064507147
AV  - NA1153.K64 Y36 2009
U1  - 724.6 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Rotterdam
PB  - 010 Publishers
KW  - Office for Metropolitan Architecture
KW  - Architectural design
KW  - Netherlands
KW  - Rotterdam
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 107-111)
N2  - "The book presents an ethnographic account of the design rhythm in the Office for Metropolitan Architecture. Written as a collection of short stories, it draws on the mundane trajectories of models and architects at the OMA and shows how innovation permeates design practice, how everyday techniques and workaday choices set new standards for buildings and urban phenomena. In these stories of invention the "Eureka!" moments are missing. They are replaced by routine gestures of model making, recycling, assembling, recollecting, rescaling. This enquiry on architecture-in-the-making is based on participant observation in the office of Rem Koolhaas, extensive interviews with architects, and photo documentation on various projects: the Seattle Public Library, the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the China Central Television (CCTV) in Beijing, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), la Casa da Musica in Porto, and others."--p. [4] of cover
ER  -