OMA / Progress

The Independent“Texts are as significant as images, models or materials...” Desperate improvisation is at the heart of Koolhaas's architecture. Who else would create a facade for Prada made of aluminium panels deliberately crumpled by underwater explosions?

Financial Times“Koolhaas isn’t nearly finished with modernism yet...” OMA are actually much better at building than this show ever indicates. But to show that would have been too boring...

Time Out“Full of generosity and honesty...” 'OMA/Progress' is Rotor's tongue-in-cheek, forensic exploration of the output of Koolhaas and co, which included rifling through their bins for embarrassing correspondence...

The Observer“It starts opaque and baffling, but hard work is rewarded by pleasure...” It eventually unfolds into a display of fierce energy and intelligence. Just don't expect to understand or even see it all. Nobody will, not even the people who made it...

Guardian“Opaque and baffling, but hard work is rewarded by pleasure...” The show plays games with value, papering the walls with print-outs and the contents of office wastepaper baskets, while fully aware that the drawings and models of famous architects are now precious collectibles...