OMA show compels, but where do they get their ideas from?

By 2011-10-06T08:48:00

OMA Progress exhibition at the Barbican Gallery

Source: Miguel Santa Clara

At this week’s press opening for Progress, the largest UK exhibition to date of OMA’s work, Rem Koolhaas recalled his first reaction to the Barbican Gallery’s proposal to mount a retrospective: “The word retrospective made me very nervous.”

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