Main entry:

Office for Metropolitan Architecture. AMO, author.

Title & Author:

Diagrams / a project by AMO/OMA.

Publication:

Milan : Fondazione Prada, 2025
©2025

Description:

448 pages : color illustrations, maps, charts, and facsimiles ; 25 cm, in cardboard box 5 x 21 x 28 cm + 1 bone folder (bone ; 15 x 3 cm)

Notes:
Alberto Cairo, Kate Crawford, Theo Deutinger, Sietske Fransen, Katya Inozemtseva, Rem Koolhaas, Miuccia Prada, Scott Reinhard Philippe Rekacewicz, Sandra Rendgen, Malkit Shosan, and Kohei Sugiura, texts ; Mario Mainetti, editor ; Irma Boom, Anna Moschioni, and Frederick Pesch, book designers ; Milan Ilaria Ortolina, Laura Magda Barazza, Elizabeth Burke, Flavia Scotti, translators ; Katya Inozemtseva, Carlo Barbatti, Niccoló Gravina, Cornelia Mattiacci, and Gianmarco Gronchi, curators.
"This publication has been realized on the occasion of the exhibition 'Diagrams' Fondazione Prada Venice, 10.5 - 24.11, 2025"--page 441.
Designed by Irma Boom, the book is intentionally unfinished to communicate to readers certain phases in the production process. The pages are printed, folded, and sewn but have not been cut. This volume has no cover, which leaves the endpapers visible.
On diagrams -- Built environment -- What is a time map? the "many is one, one is man" way of thinking -- Health -- Radical praxis diagrams as a crystallization point for social thought-processes -- Inequality -- Seeing more. seeing differently. seeing together. -- Migration -- The dual power of the multidimensional map -- Environment -- Finding fog -- Resources -- Instruments of thought the tree of porphyry and the neural network -- War -- Matters of time doomsday clock diagram -- Truth -- Diagrams of truth -- Value -- Cut cut cut -- Exhibition-book charts.
Parallel text in English and Italian.

Summary:

"'Diagrams' is an AMO/OMA Rem Koolhaas exhibition project for Fondazione Prada that explores the production, significance, statistical, and communicative functions, and the cultural, economic, scientific, social and political consequences of visual communications, infographics, as well as various combinations of texts and images, types of data analysis and synthesis, and graphic forms that we subsume under the term 'diagrams'"--Page 7.

ISBN:

9788887029949 (soft bound)
8887029946 (soft bound)

Subject:

Visual communication Exhibitions.
Information visualization Exhibitions.
Artists' books Specimens.
Communication visuelle Expositions.
Visualisation de l'information Expositions.
Information visualization
Visual communication

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs
Artists' books.
Backless bindings

Added entries:

Mainetti, Mario, editor.
Fondazione Prada (Milan, Italy), publisher.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 319495
Call No.: 319495
Copy: 1
Status: Available