In this interview from our series filmed at the OMA/Progress exhibition at the Barbican in London, OMA partner Iyad Alsaka talks about the firm’s presence in Arab countries, starting with a 2007 exhibition about the Gulf Region and leading up to their current projects in Saudi Arabia and Qatar.

Syrian national Alsaka joined OMA in 2007, specifically to work on projects in the Middle East and North Africa.

OMA co-founder Rem Koolhaas also gave Dezeen a private tour of the OMA/Progress exhibition, while partner Reinier de Graaf talked to us about more of the firm’s preoccupations. Read more details about the exhibition and see photos in our story on Dezeen.

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Here’s a live recorded stream of a debate with all the partners of architects OMA, taking place at the Barbican Art Gallery in London tonight. The discussion is chaired by Tate Modern director Chris Dercon and coincides with OMA/Progress, an exhibition of the firm’s work that continues at the Barbican Art Gallery until 19 February.

Watch our series of interviews with OMA partners, including a private tour of the exhibition with co-founder Rem Koolhaas, and see our story about the exhibition on Dezeen.

In this interview that we filmed at the opening of OMA/Progress at the Barbican in London, OMA partner Reinier de Graaf talks about the architecture firm’s current preoccupations, including the city of London.

OMA co-founder Rem Koolhaas gave Dezeen a private tour of the OMA/Progress exhibition, which continues until 19 February. Watch the tour with Koolhaas here or read more details and see photos in our story on Dezeen,

More movies in this series | Our story about OMA/Progress on Dezeen |
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In this third movie in our series of interviews with OMA co-founder Rem Koolhaas he talks about his new book Project Japan, Metabolism Talks… written in collaboration with curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, for which the pair interviewed every surviving member of the Metabolist Movement that emerged in 1950s Japan, plus their mentors, collaborators, rivals, critics, protégés, and families.

Koolhaas gave Dezeen a private tour of the OMA/Progress exhibition, which opened at the Barbican in London last week and continues until 19 February. Read more details see photos in our story on Dezeen, or watch the tour with Koolhaas here.

More movies in this series | Our story about OMA/Progress on Dezeen |
All our stories about OMA | Photos from the exhibition on Facebook

In the second instalment of our video interview with Rem Koolhaas, the OMA co-founder discusses two of his current preoccupations: the countryside, which he is addressing for the first time; and generic architecture, which could result in neutral, copyright-free building forms.

Both topics are discussed in the OMA/Progress exhibition which opened at Barbican Art Gallery in London last week. See the movie of Koolhaas giving Dezeen a guided tour of the exhibition here.

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In the first of a series of movies filmed by Dezeen at the opening of OMA/Progress at the Barbican in London earlier this week, OMA co-founder Rem Koolhaas gives us a private tour of the show.

Curated by Belgian collective Rotor, the exhibition documents the work of Rotterdam-based architecture firm OMA and its research arm AMO. OMA/Progress is at Barbican Art Gallery until 19 February. More details and photos in our story on Dezeen.

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