Archinect - News2024-05-15T15:02:41-04:00https://archinect.com/news/article/150427266/oma-conversations
OMA Conversations Nam Henderson2024-05-13T21:09:00-04:00>2024-05-14T13:33:23-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/55/555914ee7db27de46bdd400626244abc.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>the drawing for (Parc de) la Villette...was based on very definite sources...Of course...it was no gigantic leap if you were familiar with those Belgian cartoons. Willem-Jan Neutelings would always draw these little cartoons for the buildings he made, certainly when he opened his own office...The other inspiration was a painter in Chicago named Roger Brown, who made these tip-up paintings—all his scenes were using that perspective—and he was influenced by Italian 13-14th Century painting.</p></em><br /><br /><p>In collaboration with Drawing Matter, Architect Richard Hall is publishing a 6-part series based on twenty-three in-depth conversations with key collaborators working with <a href="https://archinect.com/firms/cover/382/oma-the-office-for-metropolitan-architecture" target="_blank">OMA</a> during its formative years. Most of the image material is from the in-house project archive of OMA at the Rotterdam office and/or the personal archives of its previous members and the Drawing Matter Collection.</p>
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MONU #27 on "Small Urbanism" released MAGAZINEONURBANISM2017-10-16T12:39:00-04:00>2017-10-16T12:39:47-04:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/90/90fp1v87n1i88y5g.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p><strong>“… And Though She be but Little, She is Fierce!”</strong>, the title of <em><strong>Liz Teston’s</strong></em> contribution using a quote from Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”, captures the content of this <strong><a href="http://www.monu-magazine.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">MONU</a></strong> issue on <strong>“Small Urbanism”</strong>
very well. For when it comes to urbanism, small things seem to matter,
whether they are actions, small physical elements, information and
communications technology, or small-scale interventions. With regard to
actions, <strong>Teston</strong> shows how transient micro-urbanisms of protest
architecture can have a significant impact on our cities. During such
actions, human bodies can alter public spaces through practices that
challenge the arrangement of urban power and convert it into a channel
of opposition, as <em><strong>Ana Medina </strong></em>argues in her piece<strong> “Dissident Micro-occupations”</strong>.
In her explorations of dissident architectural practices, she reveals
that spaces for protests are in fact not designed, but taken over by the
dissidents to transform the architectural urban landscape. However, t...</p>