Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers

Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers
Founded 2008
Founder Oscar Riera Ojeda
Headquarters location Shinzen, China
Nonfiction topics Architecture
Official website oscarrieraojeda.com

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. Thousands of volumes provide an overview of modernist architecture, grounded in early twentieth-century masterworks from Edwin Lutyens and Frank Lloyd Wright through Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Luis Barragán. The company's craft of book making has earned recognition for high-concept objets d’art books.

The company was founded in 2008 by editor and designer Oscar Riera Ojeda, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1966. [1] Editorial and design offices are located in the USA, China and Argentina. Previously, Mr. Riera Ojeda was founder, publishers, art director of ORO editions, and senior managing director of Novus Creative Group, producing the Spanish-Argentinian magazine Casa Internacional and other series, such as Contemporary World Architects, Ten Houses, Single Building, and Art and Architecture, a series for the Whitney Library of Design, and topical publication on architectural analytics. [2][3][4][5][6] The company formed a partnership with Beijing-based printer Artron Enterprises Ltd., recipient of the Printing Industries of America Benny award, among hundreds of awards for art book production.

Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers produces The Extraordinary Buildings Series (EB), a record of exceptional contemporary buildings constructed in China, in digital and in book format. In addition to publishing books on architecture and design, the company established The Architectural Photography Foundation (APF), a professional organization in the field of architectural photography, providing programs and services to the profession, and archiving the largest global collection of contemporary architectural photography. Limited is a branch of the company's which endeavors to archive, exhibit, promote, and sell a selection of limited edition books, in collaboration with thousands of publishers, institutions, and collectors, on a variety of topics including art, architecture, photography, politics, literature, science, sports, and entertainment. [7] Limited is composed of a network of galleries, archival mega-walls, and retail spaces in Beijing, Shanghai, and Shenzhen, offering books for research, review, and purchase through a worldwide distribution network. [8][9][10]

Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers is an international team of designers, writers, editors and publishing industry professionals focused on the design professions and the production of books which are cultural artifacts. Oscar Riera Ojeda has published monographs and special volumes and series on world renown modernist architects, including Alvar Aalto, Aedas, Alberto Campo Baeza, BAK Arcitects, 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 has worked in association with universities and cultural organizations, such as the School of Architecture of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, School of Architecture, The University of Texas College of Fine Arts in 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] Contributors incluude Michael Sorkin, Rodolphe el-Koury, William J.R. Curtis, Joseph Giovannini, Paul Goldberger, Susan Szenasy, Ada Louise Huxtable, Geoffrey London, Herbert Muschamp, Robert McCarter, and Anthony Vidler.

Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers is the recipient of over 45 Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) Benjamin Franklin Awards for recognition in editorial and design excellence. [20]

References

  1. ↑ "Biography: Oscar Riera Ojeda". Taschen.
  2. ↑ "ORO Editions". Designers & Books. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
  3. ↑ Riera Ojeda, Oscar, ed. (1997). Ten Houses: Enrique Browne. Rockport, Mass.: Rockport Publishers. pp. 107 pages : color illustrations, plans ; 23 x 26 cm. ISBN 1564963918.
  4. ↑ Riera Ojeda, Oscar (ed.). Campus & Community. pp. 222 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 32 cm. ISBN 156496230X.
  5. ↑ The new American apartment : innovations in residential design and construction : 30 case studies. New York: Whitney Library of Design. 1997. pp. 264 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm. ISBN 0823031667.
  6. ↑ "Rodolfo Machado & Jorge Silvetti". Casas internacional (Madrid: Kliczkowski) 40: 71 pages : illustrations (some color), plans, portrait ; 24 x 26 cm. 1995. OCLC 36139607.
  7. ↑ "Monographs In Disguise". Architectural Record. Architectural Record. Retrieved December 1, 2015.
  8. ↑ Ranalli, George (2014). Riera Ojeda, Oscar, ed. In Situ: George Ranalli Works & Projects. Shinzen, China: Limited. pp. 487 pages, [9] pages : colored illustrations, plans ; 22 cm x 25 cm. + 1 CD (4 3/4 in.). ISBN 9789881619471.
  9. ↑ Hutker, Mark; Wiegman, Leo A.W. "A New Architectural Vernacular". Martha's Vineyard Magazine. Jane Seagrave. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
  10. ↑ "The Metropolis 2015 Summer Reading List". Metropolis Magazine. Retrieved July 2015.
  11. ↑ 5 in five : Bedmar & Shi : reinventing tradition in contemporary living. Philadelphia, PA: Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers. 2011. pp. 463 pages : illustrations (some color), plans (some color) ; 23 cm. ISBN 9788499361864.
  12. ↑ Oubrerie, José (2015). Architecture With And Without Le Corbusier: Jose Oubrerie Architect. Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers. p. 352. ISBN 9789881512574.
  13. ↑ Ranalli, George (2009). Saratoga: George Ranalli. Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers. pp. 111 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color), plans ; 24 cm. ISBN 9780981462882.
  14. ↑ Bedmar & Shi (2015). The Bali Villas. Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers. p. 200. ISBN 9789881619518.
  15. ↑ Casas internacional, 64 (1999). "Kyu Sung Woo". Barcelona: Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers: 71 pages : illustrations, plans, portrait ; 24 x 26 cm. OCLC 48093278.
  16. ↑ Ralph Johnson of Perkins + Will: Recent Works. Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers. December 3, 2012. p. 488. ISBN 9881512549.
  17. ↑ Clear Light: The Architecture of Lauretta Vinciarelli (1st ed.). Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers. 2014. ISBN 9881619599.
  18. ↑ "Pina Petricone launches Concrete Ideas: Material to Shape a City". John Daniels Faculty at the University of Toronto.
  19. ↑ "Gaudí’s Great Temple". The New York Review Of Books. Retrieved June 25, 2015.
  20. ↑ "The Benjamin Franklin Awards". Retrieved 5 March 2016.
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