Aaron Betsky on Prada Transformer: 'This Is Event Architecture'

From architectural historian, writer, and critic Aaron Betsky comes a most illuminating take on Prada’s Transformer, the flippable temporary event space designed by Rem Koolhaas and his Office for Metropolitan Architecture. Writing in the May 20 issue of The Architect’s Newspaper (which should soon be online), Betsky helpfully describes each of the structure’s four possible conformations for those of us who won’t make it to South Korea this summer:

The space for art calls to mind the socially and physically radical crosses, squares, and circles Malevich produced after the Russian Revolution.