Block 6 Maquete conceitual

Floris Alkemade

Floris Alkemade has been collaborating with Rem Koolhaas at OMA since he graduated from the Technical University of Delft, Faculty of Architecture, together with Winy Maas, who went on to form MVRDV. Floris is the project leader of the Master Plan for the new town of Almere, a new community to accomodate three hundred thousand people in the suburbs of Amsterdam

Eduardo Aquino

Eduardo Aquino has been teaching Architecture at the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg and Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College in Vermont, along with developing projects for gallery and urban spaces. He is presently working on the "Trilogy of Exchange", a series or installations where systems of exchange are debated, construing a critique about the institutionalization of the art object. The third and last part of the trilogy, "Camelô", realized in collaboration with Karen Shanski, will be exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro in June, 2001

Interview

Conversation with Floris Alkemade at OMA. Rotterdam, July 26, 2000.

Block6 team

Rem Koolhaas, Floris Alkemade, Olga Aleksakova, Phillip Koenen, Rob de Maat, Markus Schaefer, Karen Shanski e Shohei Shigematsu

Images

All images generously provided by OMA – Office for Metropolitan Architecture