OMA / Progress

The Barbican Art Gallery will be transformed by an exhibition on OMA, one of the most influential architecture practices working today. Known for their daring and unconventional ideas and strangely beautiful buildings, as much as their contagious obsession with the rapid pulse of living today, the work of OMA and its think tank AMO anticipates the architectural, engineering and cultural ideas transforming our material world.

Founded in 1975 by Rem Koolhaas as the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, OMA now comprises a partnership of seven and a staff of around 280 architects, designers and researchers of more than 35 nationalities working in close collaboration from offices in Rotterdam, New York, Beijing and Hong Kong. OMA/Progress is the first major presentation of OMA’s work in the UK and coincides with the opening of their first buildings here, Rothschild Bank HQ in the City of London and a Maggie’s Centre in Gartnavel, Glasgow.