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, 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 with 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.
Includes a bellyband printed with instructions on how to use the bone folder.
Issued enclosed in a printed cardboard box with a tab closure.
Includes bibliographical references.
I. On diagrams / Rem Koolhaus in conversation with Katya Imozemtseva -- 1. Built environment -- II. What is a time map? The "many is one, one is man" way of thinking / Kohei Sugiura -- 2. Health -- III. Radical praxis : diagrams as a crystallization point for social thought-processes / Sandra Rendgen -- 3. Inequality -- IV. Seeing more. Seeing differently. Seeing together. / Alberto Cairo -- 4. Migration -- V. The dual power of the multidimensional map / Philippe Rekacewicz -- 5. Environment -- VI. Finding fog / Scott Reinhard -- 6. Resources -- VII. Instruments of thought : the tree of porphyry and the neural network / Kate Crawford -- 7. War -- VIII. Matters of time : doomsday clock diagram / Malkit Shoshan -- 8. Truth -- IX. Diagrams of truth / Sietske Fransen -- 9. Value -- X. Cut cut cut / Theo Deutinger -- XI. 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:

Charts, diagrams, etc. History Exhibitions.
Information visualization Exhibitions.
Information visualization History Exhibitions.
Visual communication Exhibitions.
Visual communication History Exhibitions.
Artists' books Specimens.
Communication Graphic methods History Exhibitions.
Communication visuelle Expositions.
Visualisation de l'information Expositions.
Tableaux, graphiques, etc. Histoire Expositions.
Visualisation de l'information Histoire Expositions.
Communication visuelle Histoire Expositions.
Information Méthodes graphiques Histoire Expositions.
Information visualization
Visual communication

Form/genre:

exhibition catalogs.
artists' books (books)
uncut (books)
Exhibition catalogs
Artists' books.
Backless bindings
Catalogues d'exposition.
Livres d'artistes.

Added entries:

Boom, Irma, book artist.
Mainetti, Mario, editor.
Fondazione Prada (Milan, Italy), issuing body.
Ca' Corner della Regina (Venice, Italy), host institution.

Holdings:

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