1977 – Sumário de “Architectural Design”, v. 47, n. 5:

Books
AARP (Art and Archaeology Research Papers) is a journal devoted specifically to recent research in the art, architecture and archaeology of countries in the Mediterranean area, Africa and the East, with an emphasis on architecture and transcultural interests. The journal and its associated Monographs on architecture are reviewed here by Deanna Petherbridge and John Carswell describes the background to AARP.

AD PROFILES 5: OMA
OMA (The Office for Metropolitan Architecture) consists of Rem Koolhaas, Madelon Vriesendorp, Elia Zenghelis and Zoe Zenghelis. Together these architect/artists have been investigating the metropolitan lifestyle. Their thesis is that in the early 20th century there developed in Manhattan an approach to high-density, high-rise, urbanity which held enormous potential for metropolitan living. The work of OMA investigates the earlier potential of the metropolis and attempts a recovery of nerve.

Kenneth Frampton: Two or Three Things I Know About Them: A Note on Manhattanism
In this essay Kenneth Frampton considers the work of OMA in the light of contemporary critiques of the relationship between art and architectural production.

Rem Koolhaas: Life in the Metropolis
In this essay Rem Koolhaas uses the history of Manhattan to outline what he perceives as fundamental attributes of what life in the Metropolis could be like: a totally fabricated world within which any number of opposing views could co-exist.

George Baird: Les Extrêmes Qui se Touchent
In this essay George Baird describes the various opposing positions that are simultaneously held in an interpretation of the work of OMA - which he finds both visionary and implementable, surreal and commmonsensical, revolutionary and evolutionary, puritanical and luxurious.

Exodus

The Discovery of Manhattanism

The City of the Captive Globe

Egg of Columbus Center

Hotel Sphinx

New Welfare Island

New Welfare Island: The Ideological Landscape

Welfare Palace Hotel

Roosevelt Island

House in Miami

Museum in Amsterdam

The Story of the Pool

Demetrios Porphyrios: Pandora's Box: An Essay on Metropolitan Portraits
In this essay Demetrios Porphyrios assesses OMA's inclusivist architectural imagery compared to the exclusivist, institutionalised, architectural language of contemporary architecture, arguing that it transcends the latter, and leads to the deprofessionalisation of architecture.

Coming in AD, Competitions, Recently in AD

Fonte(s): ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN. Londres: Acroshaw Ltd., v. 47, n. 5, 1977, 64 p.