
ODA
Office of Design and Architecture
Rizzoli International Publications (Publisher)
Published on 5. March 2024
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-8478-9953-1 (ISBN)
Description
Founded in 2007 by Eran Chen, ODA seeks to reconcile the conditions of vertical urban living with quality of life and has established a reputation for mold-breaking designs. Seeking to reorder urban architectural priorities by putting people first, ODA challenges conventional perspectives of dwelling that will, over time, influence life in our cities. Full of setbacks, cutouts, and terraces, an ODA building invariably has an exciting profile, tending to be sculptural where important to be visually exciting, up in the sky, and plainer where more important to be straightforward, at street level. Building shapes catch the eye but forms are never arbitrary or excessive. Some, like 15 Renwick in Manhattan, as observed by Goldberger, are well-behaved, and defer to the street more than show off their shape; others, like Bevel in Long Island City, Queens, are more striking but they never come off as excessive, as form for form s sake. With chapters moving from Apartment to Building to Block to Neighborhood and a gatefold that reveals an exciting new project destined to enliven the New York skyline, the book s message underlines ODA s fundamental understanding that nothing exists in isolation, and the goal of architecture is not just the making of comfortable and visually pleasing places in which to live, but the making of community.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Illustrations
250 COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS
Dimensions
Height: 266 mm
Width: 314 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
2478 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8478-9953-1 (9780847899531)
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Persons
Paul Goldberger is contributing editor at Vanity Fair, holds the Joseph Urban Chair in Design and Architecture at the New School, and in 1984 was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Eran Chan is Founding Principal and Executive Director of ODA.