![]() ![]() In 2014, he was director of the 14th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, entitled ‘Fundamentals’.ĭavid Gianotten is managing partner–architect of OMA, overseeing the management, business strategy and growth of the company worldwide. Rem is also a professor at Harvard University, where he conducts the Project on the City, a research program investigating changing urban conditions around the world. Currently, he leads both OMA and AMO – the research arm of OMA, operating in areas beyond the realm of architecture, including media, politics, renewable energy and fashion. After graduating from the Architectural Association in London, in 1978 he published Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan in 1995, his book S,M,L,XL summarised the work of OMA in “a novel about architecture”. Rem Koolhaas founded OMA in 1975 together with Elia and Zoe Zenghelis and Madelon Vriesendorp. Led by nine partners, including MPavilion 2017 architects Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten – plus Ellen van Loon, Reinier de Graaf, Shohei Shigematsu, Iyad Alsaka, Chris van Duijn, Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, Jason Long – OMA maintains offices across the world in in Rotterdam, New York, Beijing, Hong Kong, Doha, Dubai and Perth. OMA is an international practice operating within the traditional boundaries of architecture and urbanism. With the city as a backdrop, the pavilion provokes discussion on Melbourne, its development and its surroundings.”Ībout OMA / Rem Koolhaas & David Gianotten Existing of both static and dynamic elements, the pavilion allows for many configurations and can generate unexpected programming, echoing the ideals of the typology of the amphitheatre. The mechanical functions of the canopy can be activated to suit the type of event taking place it is an open-air venue for performances, entertainment and sports. The main infrastructure of the pavilion, adorned with lighting and hanging points, is within the floating roof, a two-metre-high mechanical grid structure made of aluminium-clad steel. As one complete structure, the sum of its parts, the pavilion becomes a modern-day amphitheatre, one that mixes the spectator and the spectacle. The smaller grandstand can rotate, allowing it to shift functions from seating to stage, blurring the distinction between performer and audience. ![]() ![]() The larger static grandstand is excavated from the surrounding landscape and embedded in twelve different species of indigenous plants, giving a sense of the Australian setting. Together they determine the setup of the performance space. MPavilion’s ground plan is shaped by two grandstands – one fixed, the other movable. OMA has designed a temporary structure that, along with providing space for performances, entertainment and events, can also perform itself. Located in the Queen Victoria Gardens in the centre of Melbourne’s Southbank Arts Precinct, MPavilion intends to draw the community in and act as a cultural laboratory. “MPavilion 2017 is a public venue on an intimate scale. The book also shares an excerpt of Koolhaas’ 2009 talk that reflects on contemporary conditions, focusing specifically on his reading of Dubai, his architectural involvement as well as his future urban predictions.Lead architects: Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten.Īrchitectural project team: Laurence Bolhaar, Paul Jones, Miguel Taborda, Eve Hocheng and Fedor Medek. After Al Manakh, in 2007, followed in 2010 by Al Manakh Cont’d, 50U tells the story of the UAE through 50 portraits of people, plants, and places. On the occasion of the golden jubilee of UAE, marking 50 years since the Emirates were founded in 1971, 50U, published by Archis explores the different developments in the Gulf, this region that “witnessed the transformation of a partly nomadic, partly town-based community into a globally active metropolitan society”. Particularly intrigued by the Gulf region and the urban ambitions of this area, in 2009, during the 9th edition of the Sharjah Biennial, he delivered a lecture on the potential of re-inventing urbanization in the Emirates. Rem Koolhaas, co-founder of Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), receiver of the Pritzker Prize Award in 2000, and leading urban theorist, was one of the first to question the high-rise phenomenon and its influence on city transformation. Sustainability and Performance in Architecture The Future of Architectural Visualization ![]()
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