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LIVING - READING 23.09. 1998 - 16.11. 1998 Press Conference: Tuesday, Sep. 22, 1998, 11:00 am Opening: Tuesday, Sep. 22, 1998, 07:00 pm The book S, M, L, XL, the journalistic monument of the architecture debate in the 90s, is the leitmotiv for the exhibition LIVING - READING. 1997, the Architekturzentrum Wien presented the XL dimension of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) with the project Euralille and the L dimension with the construction of the Lille Grand Palais by OMA. It is no coincidence that OMA's Small dimension is committed to the theme LIVING, featuring four villas in Europe (two in the Netherlands, two in France) and 24 apartments in Japan (Fukuoka), all built in the past decade. The most intimate issue, LIVING, is a theme OMA has chosen to investigate the major positions of architectural history on the "house" in a fundamentally new interpretation. Even the space occupied by the members of a family and their sociological relations are also repeatedly rearranged to exciting new typological configurations. LIVING by OMA is thus also a history of the home, LIVING arranges the stage, the setting for the members of a community living together. The objects show a conceptual zest for detail and material, which basically implants the Small dimension with a fundamental architectural message, a variation of which can also be found in the appropriate scale in the other categories of M, L, XL. LIVING purposely classifies according to the media of conveyance: The book. The image. The plan. The model. Patiovilla: Villa, Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1988 Villa Dall'Ava: Villa, Paris, France, 1991 Dutch House: Villa, Holland, 1993 Maison à Bordeaux: Villa, France, 1998 Nexus Housing: 24 apartments, Fukuoka, Japan, 1991. S, M, L, XL - the book - also creates a link to Bruce Mau, the graphics designer who together with Rem Koolhaas (OMA) arranged and presented this encyclopaedia of images, quotations, texts - all reflecting the role of architecture today - in a completely new manner. For this reason, the exhibition part READING shows the graphic innovation in the work of Bruce Mau Design (BMD). As art director of I.D. Magazine from 1991-93 and of the Magazine ZONE, Bruce Mau achieved international fame for creating a new image-text language for conveying architecture. S, M, L, XL received numerous awards,inter alia The 1996 Best Design, awarded by Times Magazine, and the 1996 Annual International Architecture Book Award. The entire two-part exhibition LIVING - READING was designed in cooperation with arc en rêve centre d'architecture Bordeaux and the Netherlands Institute of Architecture. The exhibition has been staged in Bordeaux and at the Triennale in Milan and after its presentation in Vienna it will travel to London, Glasgow, Rotterdam, and Berlin. LIVING - READING is the architecture-graphics exhibition per se on the decade's central issues: The work, the detail, the process, the conveyance. |
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