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Albena Yaneva Designed by Piet Gerards Ontwerpers English 128 pp / 220 x 140 mm / hardcover price € 19.50 ISBN 978 90 6450 714 4 published 2009, available |
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| 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. | ||
| Made possible by the Netherlands Architecture Fund. | ||
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| Dit boek is een belangrijk experiment in het beschrijven en begrijpen van architectuur en ontwerpen, juist door de hoofdrol die Yaneva de dagelijkse praktijk biedt: ontwerpen is grotendeels een banale activiteit, en dit boek is haast revolutionair in de analyse daarvan. | ||
| Robbert van Strien in Items #1 2010 | ||
| Yaneva arrives at convincing conclusions that can indeed make you look at the work of OMA in another way. The way in which models are used and qualities and characteristics are ascribed to them is hilarious. Yet Yaneva convincingly concludes that the model can have a mind of its own. | ||
| Joost Zonneveld at Archined, 23 March 2010 | ||
| Finally, an etnography of design. The book contains many revealing anecdotes and insightful interviews, also the restraint from academic referencing is a nice experience and makes it a quick and accessible read. | ||
| Edwin Garner at Archis.org, 29th March 2010 | ||
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