Now is the last chance to catch OMA/Progress events before the exhibition closes on 19 February. OMA events throughout January and February include the final OMA in Conversation talks with partners Ellen van Loon (26 January, 7.30pm) who will discuss the design and construction of the new Rothschild Bank headquarters, OMA’s first completed building in London, plus on 16 February, partner in charge of OMA’s operations in the Americas, Shohei Shigematsu will be in conversation with his former OMA colleague Bjarke Ingels, now director of Copenhagen architecture office BIG, about their architectural contemporaries and generational inheritance.
On 16 February in Barbican Art Gallery there is a special event celebrating Maggie’s Centres. Maggie’s have 15 extraordinary cancer caring centres across the UK designed by some of the world’s leading architects, including Rem Koolhaas who designed their latest building in Glasgow. The event will start with a welcome from Charles Jencks, co-founder of Maggie’s and architectural critic, and OMA Partner Ellen Van Loon, while jellymongers Bompas & Parr will show how the centres have inspired them. Bompas & Parr cocktails will be served at the bar and a chance to take part in a raffle with some very desirable prizes!
Full Listings Information
OMA/Progress Event Tickets All events are £6 online/£9 on the door and take place in Barbican Art Gallery Events Space, unless otherwise stated. Some event tickets also include same day admission to the exhibition.
Thursday 19 January, 6.30pm , Barbican Art Gallery, £8 online/£10 on the door (Includes same-day entry to the exhibition) Inside Track: Adrian Forty Join Bartlett Professor Adrian Forty for a tour of the exhibition focusing on OMA’s relationship to modern architecture.
Thursday 19 January, 7.30pm Efficiency and Elegance in Building Design Explore the benefits and impact of sustainable building design with Alistair Guthrie, global sustainable buildings leader of the engineering company Arup, in which he shares the stories behind buildings of the past and the future.
Saturday 21 & Sunday 22 January , 2 – 6pm, Admission Free Salon: Centre for Research Architecture Spend the weekend with the Centre for Research Architecture, part of Goldsmiths, University of London, and explore their ongoing work in the form of an open archive that expands notions of architecture by engaging with questions of political ecologies, conflict and human rights.
Thursday 26 January, 6.30pm, Barbican Art Gallery, £8 online/£10 on the door (Includes same-day entry to the exhibition) Inside Track: Natasha Sandmeier The Architectural Association’s Natasha Sandmeier tours the exhibition and reflects on the time she spent in Rotterdam working on designs for OMA’s Seattle Central Library and others.
Thursday 26 January, 7 – 10pm, Admission Free Salon: Being the Building/Architecture and Sensory Perception Musarc , established by Joseph Kohlmaier at the Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Design, London Metropolitan University, is a choir and performance group in its own right. Join in and explore the relationship between architecture and sound.
Thursday 26 January, 7.30pm, Cinema 2 , £6 online/£9 on the door OMA in Conversation: On Bank OMA partner Ellen van Loon discusses the design and construction of the new Rothschild Bank headquarters, OMA’s first completed building in London.
February 2012
Thursday 2 February , 6.30pm, Barbican Art Gallery, £8 online/£10 on the door (Includes same-day entry to the exhibition) Inside Track: Zak Kyes Join Zak Kyes, an organizer of OMA Book Machine, 2010, at the Architectural Association, as he describes OMA’s approach to printed matter.
Thursday 2 February , 7.30pm To Go Beyond the Fear of Pooling Knowledge In this intimate event, curator Hans Ulrich Obrist shares the motivation behind the countless live events and interviews staged with OMA’s Rem Koolhaas, from the Laboratorium Lectures, 1999, to the 24-Hour Marathon, 2006, to their latest publication Project Japan, 2011.
Saturday 4 February , 2pm , Meet at Barbican Art Gallery Ticket Desk , £ 13 online/£15 on the door (Includes same-day entry to the exhibition) Walk to Rothschild HQ This walk is the only one to include access inside the Rothschild Bank HQ building on the foyer level. Join Archivist Melanie Aspey for an introduction to the Bank’s archive and history. Begins at the exhibition with Eva Branscome.
Thursday 9 February, 6.30pm, Barbican Art Gallery, £8 online/£10 on the door (Includes same-day entry to the exhibition) Inside Track: Eyal Weizman Eyal Weizman, writer and director of Research Architecture at Goldsmiths tours the exhibition and considers some of the politics and policies behind building (and not building).
Thursday 9 February, 7.30pm After Utopia Architecture writer and provocateur Owen Hatherley and architectural historian David Heathcote discuss the OMA-inspired intervention into the fabric of Barbican Art Gallery, and the reality of occupying modernist utopian structures. What might the future hold for the heroic architecture of the 1960s and 1970s? Join the debate.
Thursday 16 February , 6.30pm, Barbican Art Gallery, £8 online/£10 on the door (Includes same-day entry to the exhibition) Inside Track: Beatrice Galilee Independent curator and writer Beatrice Galilee discusses OMA’s global reach and influence on new generations of architects in this tour of the exhibition.
Thursday 16 February , 7–10pm, Free to same day ticket holders (exhibition tickets £8 online/£10 on the door) Celebrating Maggie’s, with Maggie’s, OMA and Bompas & Parr Maggie’s have 15 extraordinary cancer caring centres across the UK designed by some of the world’s leading architects. Find out about how they support anyone affected by cancer and how Rem Koolhaas at OMA designed their latest building in Glasgow, plus s ee how the centres have inspired Jellymongers Bompas& Parr to make something very special.
Welcome by co-founder of Maggie’s and architectural criticCharles Jencks and OMA Partner Ellen Van Loon. There will also be Bompas & Parr cocktails at the bar and a raffle in aid of Maggie’s with some extremely sought-after prizes to be won
Thursday 16 February 7.30pm, Cinema 2 , £6 online/£9 on the door OMA in Conversation: On Generations Shohei Shigematsu, partner in charge of OMA’s operations in the Americas, talks to his former OMA colleague Bjarke Ingels, now director of Copenhagen architecture office BIG, about their architectural contemporaries and generational inheritance.
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Notes to Editors
Press Information For further information, images, press tickets or to arrange interviews contact Barbican Media Relations: Sarah Harvey at sarah@sarahharvey.info / +44 20 7232 2812
For information about OMA/Progress Exhibition contact Ann Berni at ann.berni@barbican.org.uk / +44 207 - 382 7169
Public Information Barbican Art Gallery is open daily 11am – 8pm, except Wed until 6pm; Late night every Thursday until 10pm. Closed 24, 25 & 26 December 2011. Tickets online from £8, on the door £10. Tel: 0845 120 7550 For more details visit: www.barbican.org.uk OMA OMA is a leading international partnership practicing architecture, urbanism, and cultural analysis. Through AMO, its research and design studio, the practice works in areas beyond architecture that today have an increasing influence on architecture itself: media, politics, renewable energy, technology, publishing and fashion. OMA is led by seven partners – Rem Koolhaas, Ellen van Loon, Reinier de Graaf, Shohei Shigematsu, Iyad Alsaka, David Gianotten and Managing Partner, Victor van der Chijs. The work of OMA and Rem Koolhaas has received several awards, including the Pritzker Prize for architecture in 2000 and the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at 2010 Venice Architecture Biennale. This is the first major exhibition on OMA following Content at the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin in 2003.
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