Rem Koolhaas was at the ICA in London this morning to launch OMA’s design for the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture in Moscow. He gave Dezeen a quick introduction to the new gallery, which will be built in Gorky Park in the Russian capital for gallerist Dasha Zukhova. (more…)
Interview: Iyad Alsaka on OMA, tourism and the Libyan desert
In this next movie from our series filmed at the opening of OMA/Progress at the Barbican in London, OMA partner Iyad Alsaka explains how the firm charted the Libyan desert, having been asked how to best exploit it for tourism.
A series of images from this project are projected onto the floor in one of the rooms of the exhibition, which continues until 19 February. Iyad Alsaka reveals more about OMA’s engagement in the Middle East and North Africa in our earlier movie.
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.
More movies in this series | Our story about OMA/Progress on Dezeen |
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Interview: Iyad Alsaka on OMA, the Middle East and North Africa
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.
More movies in this series | Our story about OMA/Progress on Dezeen |
All our stories about OMA | Photos from the exhibition on Facebook
Interview: Rem Koolhaas on OMA’s current preoccupations
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.
Our story about OMA/Progress on Dezeen | All our stories about OMA |
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