The Masterplan
Book presentation
Reinier de Graaf The Masterplan
December 15 2021, 7.00pm
OMA Partner Reinier de Graaf, in conversation with architecture critic Joseph Grima, presents his latest book ‘The Masterplan’ – a novel about an architect and his Icarus flight to fame.
What perspectives are left when architecture is reduced to a tool for real estate investors? What is the relevance of a profession whose work increasingly exists to make others money? What are the options for an aspiring architect when presented with a commission too good to be true?
Chronicling the trajectory of an architect craving recognition, The Masterplan delivers a fictional reconstruction of an architectural dream blown to dust by bigger forces. A personal story comes to reveal a larger story – of an emerging nation’s struggle with colonial residue, the growing Chinese influence in Africa and the fraught workings of a global real estate market.
Credits
Cover: The Masterplan
The Masterplan is published by Archis. It is the first work of fiction by Reinier de Graaf, the author of Four Walls and a Roof: The Complex Nature of a Simple Profession (Harvard University Press, 2017).
Caleidoscopio nella Sezione introduttiva a carattere internazionale, nel Salone d'onore
Veduta della Torre Littoria
Installazione luminosa "Luce spaziale" di Lucio Fontana sul soffitto dello Scalone d’onore. Nel vestibolo del primo piano, decorazione parietale di Bruno Cassinari
Ingresso principale sul fronte ovest del Palazzo dell'Arte