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| Founded | 2008 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Oscar Riera Ojeda |
| Headquarters location | Shenzhen, China |
| Nonfiction topics | Architecture |
| Official website | oscarrieraojeda |
Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers is an independent publishing company founded in 2008 specializing in contemporary architecture, building documentation, building design, industrial design, and architectural theory, as well as thematic compilations on cities, landscape architecture, digital architecture, sustainable architecture, architectural history, and architectural photography. The company offices are located in the United States, China, and Argentina. Thousands of volumes provide an overview of modernist architecture early twentieth-century masterworks from Edwin Lutyens and Frank Lloyd Wright through Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Luis Barragán. High quality bookmaking craftsmanship has earned the company recognition for producing high-concept objets d’art books.
Contemporary architecture is the architecture of the 21st century. No single style is dominant; contemporary architects are working in a dozen different styles, from postmodernism and high-tech architecture to highly conceptual and expressive styles, resembling sculpture on an enormous scale. The different styles and approaches have in common the use of very advanced technology and modern building materials, such as Tube structure which allows construction of the buildings that are taller, lighter and stronger than those in the 20th century, and the use of new techniques of computer-aided design, which allow buildings to be designed and modeled on computers in three dimensions, and constructed with more precision and speed.
Building design refers to the broadly based architectural, engineering and technical applications to the design of buildings. All building projects require the services of a building designer, typically a licensed architect or structural engineer. Smaller, less complicated projects often do not require a licensed professional, and the design of such projects is often undertaken by building designers, draftspersons, interior designers, or contractors. Larger, more complex building projects require the services of many professionals trained in specialist disciplines, usually coordinated by an architect.
Industrial design is a process of design applied to products that are to be manufactured through techniques of mass production. Its key characteristic is that design is separated from manufacture: the creative act of determining and defining a product's form and features takes place in advance of the physical act of making a product, which consists purely of repeated, often automated, replication. This distinguishes industrial design from craft-based design, where the form of the product is determined by the product's creator at the time of its creation.
The company was founded in 2008 by editor and designer Oscar Riera Ojeda, b. 1966, Buenos Aires, Argentina. [1] Previously, Mr. Riera Ojeda was founding Art Director at ORO Editions, and prior, Senior Managing Director at Novus Creative Group, publishing the Spanish-Argentinian series Casa Internacional as well as Contemporary World Architects, Ten Houses, Single Building, and Art and Architecture, and Whitney Library of Design. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] Company affiliate, the Beijing-based printer Artron Enterprises Ltd., is the recipient of Printing Industries of America's prestigious Benny award and hundreds of honors for excellence in art book making.
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the South American continent's southeastern coast. "Buenos Aires" can be translated as "fair winds" or "good airs", but the former was the meaning intended by the founders in the 16th century, by the use of the original name "Real de Nuestra Señora Santa María del Buen Ayre". The Greater Buenos Aires conurbation, which also includes several Buenos Aires Province districts, constitutes the fourth-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas, with a population of around 15.6 million.
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country located mostly in the southern half of South America. Sharing the bulk of the Southern Cone with Chile to the west, the country is also bordered by Bolivia and Paraguay to the north, Brazil to the northeast, Uruguay and the South Atlantic Ocean to the east, and the Drake Passage to the south. With a mainland area of 2,780,400 km2 (1,073,500 sq mi), Argentina is the eighth-largest country in the world, the fourth largest in the Americas, and the largest Spanish-speaking nation. The sovereign state is subdivided into twenty-three provinces and one autonomous city, Buenos Aires, which is the federal capital of the nation as decided by Congress. The provinces and the capital have their own constitutions, but exist under a federal system. Argentina claims sovereignty over part of Antarctica, the Falkland Islands, and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands.
Printing Industries of America is a nonprofit trade association which advocates for the United States printing industry.
Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers produces The Extraordinary Buildings Series (EB), available in digital and book format, to chronicle exceptional contemporary buildings constructed in China. In addition, the company has established The Architectural Photography Foundation (APF), to provide programs and services to professional architectural photographers including access to the largest global archival collection of contemporary architectural photography. Another branch of the company Limited is a network of galleries, archival mega-walls, and retail spaces located in Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen to offer market data and worldwide retail distribution through a network of publishers, institutions, and collectors to archive, exhibit, promote and sell limited edition publications in the disciplines of art, architecture, photography, politics, literature, science, sports, and entertainment. [7] [8] [9] [10]
Beijing, alternately romanized as Peking, is the capital of the People's Republic of China, the world's third most populous city proper, and most populous capital city. The city, located in northern China, is governed as a municipality under the direct administration of central government with 16 urban, suburban, and rural districts. Beijing Municipality is surrounded by Hebei Province with the exception of neighboring Tianjin Municipality to the southeast; together the three divisions form the Jingjinji metropolitan region and the national capital region of China.
Shanghai is one of the four municipalities under the direct administration of the central government of the People's Republic of China, the largest city in China by population, and the largest city proper in the world, with a population of 26.3 million as of 2019. It is a global financial center and transport hub, with the world's busiest container port. Located in the Yangtze River Delta, it sits on the south edge of the estuary of the Yangtze in the middle portion of the Eastern China coast. The municipality borders the provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to the south, east and west, and is bound to the east by the East China Sea.
Shenzhen is a major city in Guangdong Province, China; it forms part of the Pearl River Delta megalopolis, bordering Hong Kong to the south, Huizhou to the northeast, and Dongguan to the northwest. It holds sub-provincial administrative status, with powers slightly less than those of a province.
Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers is an International team of designers, writers, editors, and publishing professionals focused on architecture and design and the book making as a form of cultural artifact. Oscar Riera Ojeda publishes monographs, special volumes, and series on world renown modernist architects such as Alvar Aalto, Aedas, Alberto Campo Baeza, BAK Architects, Bohlin Cywinski Jackson, Bedmar and Shi, Wendell Burnette, Hariri & Hariri, Ralph Johnson, Rodolpho Machado & Jorge Silvetti, José Oubrerie, George Ranalli, Kyu Sung Woo, and Lauretta Vinciarelli. [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] The company works closely with Universities such as the School of Architecture of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; University of Texas College of Fine Arts, Austin; Harvard Graduate School of Design, Cambridge, Mass.; University of British Columbia, University of Toronto, and the Architectural Photography Foundation of Hong Kong and China. [18] [19] Key contributors are leading architectural historians and critics such as William J.R. Curtis, Paul Goldberger, Ada Louise Huxtable, Rodolphe el-Koury, Geoffrey London, Herbert Muschamp, and Anthony Vidler.
Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto was a Finnish architect and designer. His work includes architecture, furniture, textiles and glassware, as well as sculptures and paintings, though he never regarded himself as an artist, seeing painting and sculpture as "branches of the tree whose trunk is architecture." Aalto's early career runs in parallel with the rapid economic growth and industrialization of Finland during the first half of the twentieth century and many of his clients were industrialists; among these were the Ahlström-Gullichsen family. The span of his career, from the 1920s to the 1970s, is reflected in the styles of his work, ranging from Nordic Classicism of the early work, to a rational International Style Modernism during the 1930s to a more organic modernist style from the 1940s onwards. What is typical for his entire career, however, is a concern for design as a Gesamtkunstwerk, a total work of art; whereby he – together with his first wife Aino Aalto – would design not just the building, but give special treatments to the interior surfaces and design furniture, lamps, and furnishings and glassware. His furniture designs are considered Scandinavian Modern, in the sense of a concern for materials, especially wood, and simplification but also technical experimentation, which led to him receiving patents for various manufacturing processes, such as bent wood. The Alvar Aalto Museum, designed by Aalto himself, is located in what is regarded as his home city Jyväskylä.
Aedas is an international architectural firm that provides services in architecture, interior design, landscape design, urban design, masterplanning, and graphics. It was established in 2002 as an alliance between three existing companies in the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, and Australia.
Alberto Campo Baeza is a Spanish architect, Head Professor of Design at the School of Architecture of Madrid ETSAM since 1986. He has built a selected number of very precise buildings and has received many awards. His work has been exhibited in many major cities and has been published in major architectural magazines around the world.
Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers has received more than 45 Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) Benjamin Franklin Awards for editorial and design excellence. [20]
