Justin McGuirk reviews the AA's OMA Book Machine show, which explores how Rem Koolhaas re-engineered the architecture book.
Justin McGuirk reviews the AA's OMA Book Machine show, which explores how Rem Koolhaas re-engineered the architecture book. In the Guardian
McGuirk's conclusion?
For Koolhaas and OMA, books aren't luxuries – they are the residue of a process. These are architects trained to think and work through books as just another material, like concrete and glass. The vast amounts of research regurgitated by the OMA machine gets sifted and refined in book form, keeping the method transparent and the information easy to re-use. Nothing is ever wasted, and in that sense there is no such thing as failure. If the research doesn't turn into a building, there's always the book.
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