Oma

by Sandra Hofmeister (Editor)

OMA – Office for Metropolitan Architecture – is one of the world’s most influential think tanks for architecture and urban planning. With his intellectual approach to architecture, Rem Koolhaas, founding father and Pritzker Award winner, is much more than an international architecture super star.
The architecture at OMA is developed in close cooperation with AMO, an associated yet independent design and research studio.
Now, as then, the goal is to reconsider architecture, break from conventions, discover new possibilities. The journey is the destination, the architecture a never-ending process of constantly changing conditions and perspectives.
This monograph on OMA highlights impressive projects from several years of architectural creativity by describing concepts, techniques and processes. And by presenting one thing above all, numerous architectural details.

176 pages, Hardcover

Published November 1, 2019

About the author

Sandra Hofmeister is an architecture and art critic, moderator and editor. She studied architecture, art history and Romance studies at the Technical and Free University of Berlin and at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. She completed her doctorate there in 2006 on the subject of ‘Fin de Siècle and Modernism’ (Meidenbauer-Verlag, Munich 2007). As an editor and author, she has published numerous books in German and English focussing on architecture and design. Her most recently published titles include ‘Architektur in Vorarlberg. Porträt einer regionalen Baukultur’ (edited by Verena Konrad and Sandra Hofmeister, Edition Detail 2024), “David Chipperfield Architects” (4th expanded edition, edited by Sandra Hofmeister, Edition Detail 2025) and “Architecture and Climate Change”, edited by Sandra Hofmeister, Edition Detail 2024). Her texts have appeared in German and English-language newspapers and magazines as well as on online platforms. Sandra Hofmeister accompanied the launch of the German Domus as editor-in-chief. From 2017 to 2025, as editor-in-chief of Detail, she was responsible for the international architecture magazine, the online programme and the book programme of Edition Detail. In 2025 she founded the book platform castello books. She works as a moderator and juror and also teaches, currently at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.