Consistent with its trajectory, the work of OMA tries to capture the moment, the instant we happen to have right before us, which we contribute to giving form to but are ashamed to take on as our own, as happened with congestion, “mall-ification,” junkspace, and the excesses of preservation. The current moment is none other than that in which the bulk of architectural production – with the exception of educational and cultural centers – is lacking in discourse. I am not only referring to an intellectual discourse within the discipline, but also to a political, ecological, and social debate. In previous periods, the Koolhaas gaze – sharp, practical, or shall we say unbiased – was taken as a radical and political stance. Office for Metropolitan Architecture used to operate on the fine line between complicity with, and criticism of, neoliberalism, but has in the end leaned toward the former...
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