Back of House: An Inside View of OMA's Creative Machine

Behind OMA's well-known architecture and publications lies an established system that is constantly capable of generating ideas, questioning the typical approaches and discovering alternative possibilities; it is a strong methodology with an unpredictable outcome that may vary from one project to the other. This is a system that encourages collective bottom-up thinking by embracing and integrating creative talents within.

The process of thinking and creation at OMA/AMO will be presented in this lecture through a few case studies, supported by behind-the-scenes materials.

About the Speaker

Kaveh Dabiri is a licensed architect in The Netherlands and holds a MArch in Architecture and a MSc in Urbanism from TU Delft, The Netherlands. Dabiri joined OMA Rotterdam in 2009 and has since been based in OMA's Rotterdam, Doha and Dubai offices. He played a key role in the development of OMA's Doha and Dubai offices. As a project leader in the Middle East, he has been in charge of a wide range of projects in the UAE, Qatar, Turkey and Iran. He's currently an Associate at OMA, overseeing project designs in the MEA region out of the OMA Dubai office.