Architectural practice requires a degree of intimacy and insight into complex sets of forces. While building is architecture’s bread and butter, it’s not always the best format to make a statement. It’s sometimes not even the most appropriate language to respond to a brief. Volume spoke with Reinier de Graaf of OMA/AMO about how research and media can become a vessel for political agendas.
Sabine von Fischer speaks to Reinier de Graaf on OMA’s intentions behind the hospital of the future. In part three of this conversation we finish by talking orientalism, symbolisms, the generic and 3D-printing… Happy readings…