Globe-trotting documentary by Rem Koolhaas’s son Tomas finds the film-maker racing to keep up with his 71-year-old father and struggling to achi
Architecture fans expecting insight into OMA’s working methods, its internal stylistic debates and existential anxieties, will be disappointed. The film consciously eschews anything too architectural.
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“I wanted to get away from the usual theoretical architecture jargon,” says Tomas, who grew up in London before going to film school in Los Angeles, where he’s lived for the past 10 years. “I took a more humanistic, philosophical approach, so it should appeal to a wider audience. I want people to engage on a more emotional and instinctive – rather than cerebral – level.”