Arkitekten

Space

Paris Obs

Publico

Arquitectura
e Vida
600 p.

600 p.

AWARDS / HONORS
Publications celebrating OMAs
awards, honors, prizes and
Praemiums,

500 p.

OMA Time-Line of Publications: 1975 - 2007

This time-line offers a concise scan of the entire publications output
of OMA since its foundation. This production ranges from one
monograph every ten years in its early stages, to averaging one
monograph every couple of months. The resulting graph reveals
a massive body of publication which grows exponentially both
in intensity and complexity and it distills from this production a
number of models worth closer analysis, such as the Project-Books,
Book-Projects, and the Monographs.
The Project-Book model, found in the cases shown in the lower
half of the time-line; identifies the in-house production of books,
brochures, dossiers, booklets or pamphlets which foreground the
offices designs in parallel with the concepts driving them.
The Book-Project model, found in the cases shown in the upper half
of the time-line, identifies both in-house and out-sourced production
of books, brochures, dossiers, booklets or pamphlets where the
publication itself is the objective. In these instances, a broader
cultural discourse and its implications is explored independently
from the architectural design.
The model of the Monograph, found in the cases along the dashed
red line in the middle of the time-line, is feed from the previous two
models through a kind of porous boundary. The yellow background
producing the skyline behind the covers charts out the exact monthly
page-count kept by the office in the articles published about OMA,
offering a sense of the relationship between writing in the studio and
writing about the studio.

Publication
Publication

Publication

OMA IN THE COVER

Publications featuring AMO in the
cover produced outside of the office.
PUBLICATION BAR GRAPH
OMA overall yearly production of
publications including both project
books, monograps and books as
projects.

Publication

Publication

Publication

BOOK PROJECT
Books produced where the
publication is the project.

MONOGRAPH ZEBRA CROSSING

Between the Project Book and the
Book as Project.

Publication

Publication

400 p.
REM KOOLHAAS / OMA BOOKS
Publications akconwledge by OMA

PROJECT BOOK
Books produced for description of
OMA projects.

Publication

PAGE COUNT GRAPH

Number of Published Pages on OMA
- AMO by Month.

Publication

Publication

Historical Period, 1975-1985

Since its early stages in 1975, publications have been OMAs primary
medium and agent in the development and diffusion of projects. In
the same year of its inception, OMA is featured on two covers in the
Italian magazine Casabella. In the following year, OMA is featured
in a third cover in the issue of the French magazine LArchitecture
DAjourdHui. In 1978, and coinciding with the publication of
Delirious New York, the English magazine AD dedicates an entire
issue to the offices first monograph. This issue follows a historical
tradition of monographs from LArchitecture Vivante to El Croquis,
where a magazine turns over an entire issue to a single office,
bringing together its designs, texts and ideas within the framework
of a magazine format. In this early period, OMAs publishing enjoys
a remarkable early success, following a trajectory mostly based on
historical publication models.

UNCERTAIN PAGE COUNT GRAPH

Estimate Number of Published Pages
on OMA - AMO by Month when Data
is missing from OMA -AMO Statistics.

300 p.

Year
Casabella n.378 publishes Exodus,
Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture on
its cover in 1973, representing the PreHistory of publications by OMA, founded
in 1975.

600 p.

The White and Black Periods, 1986-1995

Systematically produced since 1986, Project-Books are kept in the
private realm of the office-client relationship. Testing the available
technical means of production within the office for the generation of
in-house publications, they are a means to push the designs further,
exploiting such formats as the Xerox A3 which is here outlined as
the White-Period in the time-line, approximately from 1986-1991.
This period is followed by the use of the color photocopier, which is
here outlined as the Black-Period in the time-line, approximately 500 p.
from 1995-1998. Here, a reduction of page size and a proliferation
of multiple formats and icons are tested in a way that encourages the
many iterative versions of designs produced at this time.
The publication of S,M,L,XL in 1995 represents a radical departure
from the format of a monograph as an oeuvre complete. Strategically
tested in a number of precedents, such as the in-house produced
catalog 6 Projects from 1990, and the Japanese magazine Kenchiku
Bunka, Koolhaas OMA: from A to Z from 1995; the encyclopedic
structure of S,M,L,XL reorganizes the production of the office
Now, 2006
according to a scale based logic.
In its most recent experiments in architectural publications, OMA/
AMO returns to explore the relationship between the conventions of
400
p.
Present, 2001-2006
the Project-Book and Book-Project, in the first issue of Domus
In 2001, a Project-Book called AMO, retroactively claims the
DAutore, April, 2006. In this instance, four projects are represented
emergence of AMO, as the mirrored virtual-shadow branch of OMA,
in comparative terms sliced by thin sections dedicated to media. This
back to 1996. Structured as a Monograph it collects ten OMA
media is argued to represent the reception of each project in multiple
projects that push their conceptualization to the foreground to such
forms Surveillance, Quotes, Internet Blogs, Journalists
an extent where the coverage of themes begin to surpass the design
Viewpoints and TV Coverage. It is perhaps in this last episode
of the projects themselves. The pages of AMOs Book-Projects
where OMA/AMO once again reconfigures the nature of its own
are no longer hinged around the architectural conventions of plans,
publication production in order to introduce yet another hybrid
sections, model-shots, and renderings but open the framework
model that adds to its extensive repertoire. Domus DAutore returns
of the publication to include a much broader set of concerns and
to exploring the forms of media closest to the occupation of the
content.
project, in order to sample its most generic form of reception.
Other examples of the category of Book-Project at this time include
Finally, Domus DAutore points the way to a model of reciprocity
300 p.
those produced for Prada, Schiphol, Universal, and the Whitney;
between the Project-Book and Book-Project in the body of a
extending their content beyond architectural production and closer
Monograph which is extended to include the Post-Occupancy
to a practice of cultural consulting. The research and publications
phase of the projects. It is perhaps in this issue where the latest
developed for the Harvard Projects on the City are a clear example
exploration of the fertile ground between categories has been made
of this practice.
most explicit and generic, crystallizing into a single issue the many
It is in this period where the momentum of the Book-Project
models discovered along the path of the ongoing time-line.
is most widely embraced by educational and cultural institutions
culminates in the MoMa Charrette, where a short-list of invited
Urzti Grau and Daniel Lopez-Perez
architects is asked to propose their ideas for the extension of the

500 p.

200 p.

Last cover for Exodus: Voluntary

Prisoners of Architecture, Phoenix
Styles 1991

Japanese Monograph, Prove, 1995

400 p.

Jean Nouvel on the cover in front of Villa

DallAva, DeArchitect, 1992

Much favored monograph in its inclusion

of people inhabiting the buildings in the
photographs of the projects, A+U n.217,
1988

Delirious New York 2nd edition,

replaces its cover from Flagrant Delit
by Madelon Vriesendorp to X,Y,Z 6th
Avenue Towers. There is also a reduction
in size, and overall number of images,
1994

Architecture

De Architect

Kenchiku
Delirious New York 2nd edit.
Bunka

Precursor to S,M,L,XL, monograph

organizing projects by type and scale,
claimed as representing Large, 6
Projects, 1990

La Maison des
Droits dHomme Chasse

OMA
De Architect

PA

De Architect Diseno Interior

AJ

Rem Koolhaas,
Architecture
at Rice 1991

Casabella 408
100 p.

Casabella 418

L'Architecure
d'Aujourd'hui

100 p.

Modo

Telegram
Rotterdam

Lijnbaan

L'architecture
d'ajourd'hui 238

AD 47
NDT

Delirious
New York
English Edit

0 p.

1975

1976

Roosevelt Island
Competition, New York
Hotel Sphinx
Study, New York

Welfare Palace Hotel

Study, New York
The Story of the Pool
New Welfare Island
Study, New York

1977

Delirious
New York
French Edit.

Boompjes

NAI 1

ZKM

NAI 2

Projectes
Urbans

Huntum Villa

Natuur en Millieupark

NL Sport Museum

Paviljoen
Onderweg

Kochstrasse

Parc de la Villette

0 p.

IJ Plein

Churchillplein
Office Tower

Bosphorus
Bridge

De Bol

Lille 21

Puntstad Zuidstad Air Alexander 2

Oosterdok

Bijlmer

Bijlmer
Revision

KPMG

Melun
Senart

Conversations with
students 2nd edit.

Metrodade

Zeebrugge St Quentin
Sea Terminal

Rijnsweerd

Europaweg

Noorddijk

Bibliotheque
de France

MoMA Charette

Kunsthal

Convention Amsterdam
Center

Agadir Convention
Center

Home

NYTimes
Magazine

Wired

30 Colours

Projects
for Prada

AMO 2

Colours

Day in the
Ruhrgebiet

Navigator
Redesign

RUR
Glossary

RUR

US EU CN

AMOMA

Lagos

Rome

Universal

Museum
Exhibition

AMO

Europe
Exists

Venice Biennale
Hermitage 2

Willemsbrug

Holendrecht

Troyes

Waist Down Volume 1

Prada

AMO
Asia 2010

Breuniger

Hypobank

Togok
Towers

MoMA Charette

Paard

Living

NL2030

Souterrain

Doktoer v
Deenweg

Berlin Embassy

Huizen

La Maison des
Droits dHome

Cardiff Opera
House

Ij Oevers
C&A

0 De
p. Verdwijning Hilton Le
Hague

Transferia

Kunsthal

Air Alexander

Educatorium

Educatorium

Schiphol

Ceres

Haus um die
Schiphol Schenkung

Carrefour
Seattle Library

El Bajo

Berlin Embassy

Guggenheim LV

Astor Hotel

Block6
Casa da
Musica

Berlin Embassy Foundation Garage

Almere
Pinault

Distributed
House

Garage
Almere

Seattle
Library

C3

Almere
Centrum

Almere
Masterplan

MDH Masterplan Universal

Building

Zoetermeer

Genova
Masterplan

De Rotterdam

Almere
Seul
International WTC
Singapore
Airport

H Project
Treubstraat

1978

1979

1980

1981

1982

1983

1984

1985

1986

1987

1988

1989

1990

1991

1992

1993

1994

1995

Extension of the Dutch Parliament

The Hague, The Netherlands
Competition, First Prize
Delirious New York:
A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
The Sparkling Metropolis

Prime Minister Residence

Competition, Dublin
Study for teh Renovation of a Panopticon Prison
Arhem, The Netherlands
Boompjes Tower Slab
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Housing Kochstrasse / Friedrichstrasse

Berlin, Germany
Housing Lutzowstrasse
Berlin, Germany, Competition

IJ- Plein Urban Planning.

Amsterdam, Completed 1992
Netherlands Dance Theater I
The Hague
Oost III Housing and Shops
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
School and Gymnasium
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Villas Antiparos
Antiparos, Greece
Hotel Therma
Lesbos, Greece

Police Station.
Almere-Haven, The Netherlands
Parc De La Villette.
Paris, Two Part Competition,
First Prize

Exposition Universelle.
Paris

Villa Dall`Ava
Paris, Completed 1991
Nederlands Dance Theater, Project II
The Hague, Completed 1987
De Brink Apartments.
Groningen, Completed 1988
Churchillplein Office Tower
Competition, Rotterdam
Checkpoint Charlie Housing
Berlin, Completed 1992

Patio Villa
Rotterdam, Completed 1988
Byzantium
Amsterdam, Completed 1991
Bus Station
Rotterdam, Completed 1987
Installation for the 1986 Milan Triennale
Milan Italy
Morgan Bank
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Parc Citroen Cevennes
Paris, France
Bay of Koutavous Reconstruction
Argostoli, Greece

Uithof Masterplan,
Utrecht, Completion in Phases
The Hague City Hall.
The Hague, Competition, 1st Prize
Bijlmermeer Redevelopment
Masterplan, Amsterdam

Kunsthal Museum
Rotterdam, Completed 1992
Ville Nouvelle Melun-Senart
France, Competition

Biocenter
Frankfurt, Germany
Scientopia, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
NAi, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
The highway Project
The Netherlands
Retrospective Exhibition
Basel, Switzerland
Renovation of Hotel Furka Blick
Furka Pass, Switzerland
Euro-Disney Hotels
Marne-la-Vallee, France
Netherlands Sports Museum
Fleohof, The Netherlands
Euralille: Center International dAffaires
Lille, France
Recent Work, Max Protech Gallery
New York
Deconstructivism, MoMa
New York
OMA 1972-1988
Basel, Switzerland

Sea Terminal
Competition 1st Prize, Zeebrugge
Video Bus Stop,
Groningen, Completed 1989
Trs Grande Bibliotheque.
Competition Honorable Mention, Paris
Nexus World Housing.
Fukuoka, Completed 1991
Museumpark.
Completed 1994
Airport City.
Competition 1st, Frankfurt
ZKM (Center for Art and Media Technology)
Karlsruhe, Germany
Project for an Office City
Frankfurt Airport, Germany
Sports Complex
Groningen, The Netherlands
Stad aan de Stroom
Antwerp, Belgium

Souterrain.
The Hague, Completed 2004
Congrexpo (Lille Grand Palais).
Lille, Completed 1994
La Baye d`Agadir.
Competition 1st Prize, Agadir
OMA: Fin de siecle
Paris, France
Rem Koolhaas, OMA in Lille
Lille, France
Energieen (Energies)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Palm Bay Seafront Hotel and Convention
Center,
Agadir, Morocco, Competition
Hilton Hotel
The Hague, The Netherlands
OMA: Recent Projects
Barcelona, Spain

Transferia
The Netherlands
Mission Grand Axe
La Defense, Paris, France
Zac Danton Office Tower
La Defense, Paris, France
Leipziger Messe
Leipzig, Germany

Urban Design Forum

Yokohama, Japan
Stedelijk Museum
Competition, Amsterdam
Point City / South City.
Study, Netherlands
Educatorium.
Utrecht, Completed 1996
Dutch House.
Netherlands, Completed 1995
IJ-Oevers
Amsterdam, The NEtherlands
Zac Danton.
Competition 1st Prize, Paris
Extension to the Stedelijk Museum
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Point City / South City

The Netherlands
2 Bibliotheques de Jussieu.
Competition 1st Prize, Paris
Hypo Bank
Munich, Germany

Tate Gallery of Modern Art Extension

Competition, London
Super and Popular.
Groningen, Completed 1995
Place des Nations.
Geneva, Switzerland
Metro Dade Performing Arts Center.
Competition, Miami
Maison a Bordeaux.
Bordeaux, Completed 1998
Cardiff Bay Opera House.
Competition, Cardiff
C3 Maastowers.
Study, Rotterdam
Chasse Masterplan.
Breda, Completed 2003
Almere City Center.
Almere, Completed 2005
Super and Popular
Groningen, The Netherlands
Metro Dade Performing Arts Center
Miami, USA
Saitama Arena
Tokyo, Japan
Parking Phase I & II
Almere, The Netherlands
New Deal
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Woningbouwfestival
The Hague, The Netherlands
Senior Citizens Housing.
Alblasserdam, Completed 1999
Zurich Schauspielhaus.
Competition, Zurich
Zuid As. Infrastructure
Development, Amsterdam
Dedemsvaartweg Housing.
The Hague, Completed 1998
t`Paard.
The Hague, Completed 2004
Togok Tower, Study, Seoul
Oostelijke Handelskade, Competition, Amsterdam
New Seoul International Airport.
Study, Seoul
Luxor Theater.
Competition, Rotterdam
H-Project.
Masterplan, Completed 2004
Breuninger Department Store.
Competition 1st Prize, Stuttgart
Alliance Francaise, Rotterdam, Completed 1997
Stockholm Olympic Stadium
Stockholm, Sweden
A4 Highway Corridor, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Massena Rive Gauche, Paris, France
Hotel and Apartment, The Hague, The Netherlands

MCA
Headquarters

Prada LA

Zeche Zollverein Bordeaux

Masterplan

Lacma

Vestbanen
Oslo

LACMA

Paard

Genova
Masterplan

Inchon

Chasse Parking Zoetermeer

Centrum-West

Block 6 Almere Y-Stad Wenner House

Prins
Clausplein

Paard
Whitney

UN City

1996

1997

1998

1999

2000

2001

Schiphol.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Leeum, Samsung National
SNU University Museum.
Seoul, Completed 2004
Maison des Droits de l`Homme.
Competition, Geneva
Hyperbuilding.
Study, Bangkok
Chasse Campus Breda
Breda, Completed 2002
Breda Carre Building
Breda, The Netherlands
Breda Parking, Breda
The Netherlands
Alliance Francaise
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Universal City
Study, Los Angeles
Port of Genova
Italy
Pier Porject
Thessaloniki, Greece

MCA Masterplan, Los Angeles, USA (S)

MCA Coral Garage, Los Angeles, USA (S)
Schiphol Logistics Park.
Haarlemmermeer (S)
Port of Genova
Masterplan, Genova
Netherlands Embassy
Berlin, Completed 2004
National Library
Competition, Kansai
Lensvelt.
Rotterdam, Completed 2000
IIT Campus Center.
Chicago, Completed 2004
Haus um die Schenkung
Berlin, Germany (S)
Hanoi New Town
Masterplan, Hanoi
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Extension
New York, USA. Competition
Maasvlakte
Europort, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Papendorp Master Plan, The Netherlands
New Urbanism, Kasel, Germany, Documenta X
Office Park, Dusseldorf, Germany
Zoetermeer Centrum West, The Netherlands
Lensvelt, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Song-Do New Town,

Masterplan, Inchon. Seoul
Y2K House.
Rotterdam (S)
Second Stage Theater.
New York (with Gluckman Manyer Architects)
Completed 2000
Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Competition, Sta. Cruz, Spain
MoCA Roma.
Competition, Rome, Italy
Gogelweg.
The Hague, Completed 2002
El Baijo Business & Cultural Center.
Competition, Guadalajara, Mexico
De Rotterdam,
Multi-Use Building, Vertical City.
Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
In Progress
Almere Block 6
Almere, The Netherlands
MAB Tower, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Schiphol Logistics Parc
Schiphol Amsterdam Airport, The Netherlands
Schiphol Study, The Netherlands
Living
Bordeaux, France

Distributed House.
Bahamas
Seattle Public Library.
Seattle, Completed 2004
Prada Epicenter San Francisco.
San Francisco
Prada Epicenter Broadway,
New York, Completed 2001
Prada Epicenter Beverly Hills.
Los Angeles, Completed 2004
Schiphol S.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Casa da Musica.
Porto, Completed 2005
Almere Block 6.
Almere, Completed 2005
Philips
Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Zurich Stadium,
Zurich, Switzerland
Cities on the Move
London, UK
Living, London, UK
Ciudad de La Cultura
Santiago de Compostela, Spain
COB, The Netherlands
Dutchtown, Rotterdam,
The Netherlands

Taschen House.
Los Angeles, USA.
Guggenheim Las Vegas.
Las Vegas, USA Completed 2001
Guggenheim Hermitage.
Las Vegas, USA Completed 2001
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Masterplan. New York, USA
Astor Hotel.
Study, New York, USA
(in Collaboration with Herzog &
DeMeuron)

Un City.
New York, USA. Competition
(in collaboration with various offices)
Zeche Zollverein.
Essen, Germany. Completion 2006
New Whitney.
New York, USA. Commission 2001
Museum Ludwig.
Cologne, Germany. Competition
Los Angeles Country Museum of Art (LACMA).
Los Angeles, USA. Commission
Fondation Pinault.
Paris, France. Competition
Flick Collection.
Zurich, Switzerland (S)
Cordoba Congress Center.
Cordoba, Spain. In Progress
Caltrans Headquarters.
Los Angeles, USA. Competition
Brussels, Capital of Europe.
Identity Project, Brussels (A)
Barcelona Airport.
Barcelona, Spain. Competition

MWG

S,M,L,XL Iranian
edit. (unofficial)

White City

Penang

Vestbanen Oslo

Dubai
Tanger

Exp Neg

S Project

Bank

SSE Gazprom

RAK Gateway
Binckhorst

CCTV

Dallas

Dubai
Renaissance

Riga POrt
City

CCTV

Artem
Zaragoza
PCM

Beijing
Books

OMA in
The Hague

Domus
DAutore 1

Riga Port City

Whitney

Hermitage

Archplus 175

Hermitage

Casa da
Musica
Hanoi New Town

S,M,L,XL 4rd edit.

(unofficial)

Volume 6

SadionPlein

Les Halles

Arts district
Seattle Library ITT

Rotterdam Centraal

White City

CCTV

Guangzhou Cordoba
Opera House Congress

Rotterdam Terminal

SNU Museum

La Defense
Research Book

White City 3

Logroo

SNU museum
Zakencentrum WTC

A+U CCTV

Archplus 174

Museum Park

Barcelona
Airport

Danish
Architecture
Center

Volume 5

Volume 4

SNU Museum

Les Halles

CCTV

Porto
AFVAL
Transport

Volume 3

Berlin

GSB OMA

Auto
Stadt

SLP 99
Amsterdam Zuid
C3

Zac Danton 2

Luxor Theater

Tenerife

Dutchtown

The Gulf

Volume 2

OMA
Underground

Kenchiku
Bunka

CCTV AMO

Ludwig

12 Prada

Dutchtown
Almere

Philips

Universal
Headquarters

Lille

Air Alexander 3

Deux
Bibliotheques

Burnap

Breuniger 2

Tesaloniki Pier

IIT

Delirious New York

Japanese and German edit.

Prada LA

Tvcc

Collection
Project
S,M,L,XL
3nd edit.

The Gulf
Venice Biennale

Hermitage
AMO

A+U 398

Conversations with
Students Spanish ed.

Delirious New York

Italian edit.

International
Review

Casa Vogue Glas

RUR Park

Delirious New York

Spanish edit.

H Project

Hotel CS

Rijswijk

Conversations with
Students Japanese. ed.

EU AT Heads of
State BP

Bauhaus
Europa

Content

WA OMA

A+U

de Archtect

OMA Media
AMO

Zeche Zollverein
Deltametropool Kohlenwsche

SchipholS

Shopping

KO ersief

Kohlenwasche

El Croquis
52+79
Schiphol
Airport
City

Opus C

AMO Harvard

Eurocore

Image of
Europe

Form

Brussels
RUR Dump

AMC

Casa Vogue

Content

Wired Real
Tools

Mutations

Plus

Parallel
Universe
Content

Archis

Specifier

EU AT 2

RIBA Journal

Trouw

Taxupouos

Pasajes
European
Passport
Beijing
Wired
Preservation

A&B

Intelligent Glass
Solutions

Literary
Landscape

Guide to
Shopping

First Japanese edition and translation of

Delirious New York, 1999

S,M,L,XL
2nd Edit.

Zac Danton

Hilton

Brostadt
Coevorden

Icon

IIAS
\newsletter

B1

Shanlia
Shenghua

Great
Leap
Forward

300 p.

Arch+ June

El Croquis 52

Souterrain 2

NDT

IJ plein

Harderwijk

Stedelijk Museum

Stadhuis
Coevorden

AD

Architekturpreis

Harvard
Allston

Pritzker
Prize

A&B

MCA Masterplan

Kantoren
Villas

Uithof 2000 City hall

Maison a
Bordeaux

ZKM 2

Eurodisney

Boompjes

L'architecture
d'ajourd'hui 280

New Deal

6 Projets

Blauwe Kamer

Euralille

Luxor Theater
Tate Modern

Woontoren
Koninginnegracht

Provincie huis
Ecole
Groningen

Maximum
Europe

El Croquis

Zoetermeer

Furka
Ofiice
Villas

Arch+ 132

Korea

OMA, Jacques Lucan

Oosterflank

Probe

Layout

AMO

Tate

Kunsthal

Rails

AV

First monograph including built work,

LAA n.238, 1985

Delirious New York, First book and

monograph published simultaiuslly in
French and English including 5 projects,
1978

S,M,L,XL, 2nd Edition, first color change

of the name in the cover from Yellow to
Orange, 1996

RIBA Gold
Medal

Prada Vomit

First appearance of AMO, while

retrospectively referring to its
contribution to previous projects, like
the Universal Project in LA, dating as far
back as 1996

HG

Exhibtion Basel

Park de la Villette, Two-Part

competition, first prize, Park for the 21st
Century, 1982

S,M,L,XL

AMO 1

S,M,L,XL, 3rd Edition, Second color

change of the name in the cover from
Orange to Light Blue, 1998

Competition submission in the format of

a book, bridging both the project-book
and book-project categories, MoMA
Charette 1997

300 p.

A+U 217

Urbanisme

Styles Phoenix Baumeinster

de Architect CA

Content, sequel to S,M,L,XL both as a

monograph and book-project by AMO,
with a structure based on geography,
A+U
2004

Axis

First double-monograph, El Croquis

52+79, 1998

Arch+

First outsourced monograph book, OMA,

Jaques Lucan, 1990

Archi

200 p.

First monograph produced outside the

office, Casabella 47, 1978

Arkitektur

The Business

Eurobabel

Face-Period, proliferation of covers

featuring the face or profile of Koolhaas,
starting in 2000 and lasting until 2005
New York Times Sunday Edition Cover,
2000

Rem Koolhaas at Rice becomes

Conversation with Students, 1991

De Architect

10 desingel
catalog

ACC

B7
Unauthorized 4th edition of S,M,L,XL
Unauthorized translation of S,M,L,XL into
Arq./a
by Monticelli Press, changing theDArchitectures
color
Farsi, 2006
Grandi
Bauwelt
A+
of the
title from light to dark blue, and
Architectural
Opere
both Review
the paper weight and page size,
Domus DAutore 1 monograph
2005
organized in terms of the reception
of projects through multiple forms of
Volume, editorial project by AMO,
media, 2006
Time
Columbia GSAPP And Archis, n.1, 2005
Bibliotheek
FD Persoonlijk Architecture Special
The Outlook
and Cultuture
Magazine

First Harvard Research Studio books

published, 2001

400 p.

First face on the cover, Archi, 1989

Publication of a lecture and discussion

with students at Rice University, part of
the Conversations with Students Series,
1991

First Chinese Monograph, WA OMA, 2003

500 p.

Period of uncertain page-count data

where the two primary in-house OMA
sources of page count information, a
detailed bibliography from 1972-2000,
and a detailed X-Cell Sheet from 2000
onwards; have lapses of data collection
from June 1997 to September of 2000.

First edition of S,M,L,XL, delivered

signed copies following a lecture at the
AA from the back of a truck in Bedford
Square, 1995

First use of the dictionary format in the

structure of the monograph, OMA: A-Z,
Kenchiku Bunka, 1994

Book produced as the result of a

research studio at Harvards GSD,
precursor to Harvards Guide to
Shopping and Great Leap Forward,
1998

Page-count graph exceeds 450 pages

in a single month coinciding with the
publication of El Croquis double issue n.
52 + 79, 1998

Black-Period self-described as the

proliferation of black covers in the
project-books from 1995-1998

White-Period, self described as period

of proliferation of the use of white A3
format, from 1986 to 1991

Apres LAmour on the cover, Casabella

408, 1975

Editorial project as a precursor to both

Content and Volume, Wired, 2003TA

Mock-up of AMO as a magazine as a

precursor to Content, 2001

Page-count graph exceeds 300 pages

in a single month coinciding with the
publication of El Croquis n.52, 1992

ATD

City
Weekend

600 p.
First cover of the Financial Times Sunday
Edition, 2001

Museum of Modern Art in New York, in the format of a book.

Design is unambiguously book design.
For the occasion of the 2004 OMA retrospective Content, at
the Berlin National Gallery, OMA/AMO produce a catalog for
the exhibition under that same name. Somewhere between a
magazine and a book, dispensable and cheap, Content collects
a heterogeneous body of ideas in the form of a saturated, lowresolution aesthetic as an editorial response to S,M,L,XL. Free from a
monographic character, the structure is opened up to include external
collaborations and articles which exemplify the potential of the
editorial Book-Project.
After the successful formula of the issue of Wired magazine, Cool
World, edited by OMA/AMO; Content is followed by other editorial
joint-ventures such as Volume. In this last case, AMO comes together
with Columbia Universitys GSAPP, and the Dutch magazine Archis,
representing a continuation of both the Harvard Projects on the City
and Content, now brought together into a single editorial project.

Ad Archiutektura AMC

Deloitte

Hermitage

Beijing
Olympic
Mercati G

National
Seattle
Museum of Central
China
Library

2002

2003

2004

CCTV Television Station and

Headquarters / TVCC Television
Cultural Center and Hotel.
Beijing, PRC. Completion 2008
Opera House.
Competition. Ghangzou, PRC
Oslo Vestbanen.
Masterplan and Multi Use
Buildings.
Oslo, Norway. In Progress
Multi Media Building.
Hong Kong. Competition
Koningen Julianaplein.
The Hague, The Netherlands.
Competition
FNWI Watergraafsmeer.
Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Competition
Domplatte Workshop.
Cologne, Germany. (S)

Shanghai Planning & EXPO 2010

Beijing Central Business District,
PRC
Autostadt, Strategies for VW Brand
Beijing Olympic Conference Center
Beijing Preservation, PRC
Hermitage Museum
St Petersburg. Russia
Naples High Speed Train Terminal
European Central Bank HQ
Competition
Rotterdam Central Station
The Netherlands, Competition
Gent Forum.
Belgium
Conde-Nast Wired Guest Issue
Les Halles Masterplan.
Competition. Paris, France
Ascot Residence
IKEA Marketing and Branding (A)
PCM Headquarters.
Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Beijing Books Building.
Beijing, PRC. Competition 2004
Kohlenwsche Museum.
Essen, Germany. Completion 2006

Zhuhai Campus Masterplan, Beijing

Shanghai Expo, PRC
Oude Dokken, Masterplan.
Gent, Belgium, In Progress
White City Masterplan.
Competition 1st Prize. London, UK.
In Progress
Learning Center in the Ecole
Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne.
Lausanne, Switzerland, Competition
`The Image of Europe`(A)
Exhibition & Symposium, Brussels
Ruhrpark Shopping Mall.
Germany (A)
Logrono Urban Planning, Spain
Prada Skirt Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
HafenCity Hamburg Masterplan,
Hamburg, Germany. In Progress
Tokyo Vertical Campus.
Japan. Competition
China National Museum.
Beijing, PRC. Competition
Mercati Generali.
Competition 1st Prize. Rome,
Italy. In Progress
S-project.
Seoul, Korea. Competition
EURegionale 2008 Agentur

NMR

Artem - nancy

Cordoba

Hermitage Taschen
House

Prada on
the Bund

Dubai
Masterplans

Sighvatsson
House

Dubai
Convention
Center

2005

2006

Port of Tanger.
Morocco. Competition.
Hedge Fund.
USA. (A)
Domus Dautore Magazine
Editorial. Italy. Published (A)
51st Venice Biennale Art Exhibition.
Venice, Italy (A)
Volume Magazine with Archis (A)
Rothschild Bank Headquarters.
London, UK. In Progress
Balandra Bay Baja Residential
Community.
Mexico. Competition
Prada Shanghai Epicenter.
Shanghai, PRC. Commission
Audi Showroom.
Germany (A)

Qatar Education City, Qatar.

Venice Biennale Architecture Exhibition.
Venice, Italy (A)
Jersey City Residential.
NY, USA. Business Tower +
Residential Tower. Dubai, UAE. In Progress
Redevelopment project.
Seoul, Korea.
Copenhagen - Danish Architecure Centre.
Denmark.
Riga Contemporary Art Museum, Latvia.
Ras al-Khaimah Masterplan, UAE.
Masterplan in Kuwait City, Kuwait.
Masterplan Dubai x2, Saudi Arabia.
Riga Harbour Redevelopment, Latvia. In Progress
Binckhorst Masterplan.
Den Haag, Netherlands, In Progress
Serpentine Gallery.
London, UK - Rem Koolhaas + Cecil Balmond
Residential Tower, Singapore.
Platform 21, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands (A)
AIST Campus.
Abuja, Nigeria. Competition
Milstein Hall, Cornell University.
NY, USA. In Progress