Cut cut cut

Cut cut cut

diagrams is a catalogue and exhibition project conceived by AMO/OMA, Rem Koolhaas’s studio, for Fondazione Prada Venice at Ca’ Corner della Regina.

It explores how data visualization serves as a tool for constructing meaning, analyzing the world, and shaping knowledge, inviting reflection on the interplay between human intelligence, science, culture, and knowledge dissemination.

For the diagrams exhibition catalogue, Theo Deutinger wrote the text cut cut cut stressing the importance of the section in architectural drawings, in art, and in strategic thinking. Deutinger points out that “Only the section can explain our current way of living and our existence.” The only way out of the status quo is by cutting through increasingly persistent and fortified façades and layers of superficiality. cut cut cut is a battle cry for cultural exploration and revelation.

The book diagrams is intentionally left unfinished to reveal its production process. Codes and colors reference shared standards, provide production data, and function as diagrams. Pages are printed, folded, and sewn but not cut; perforations allow air circulation during binding and guide the final cutting with the included letter opener.

Client: Prada Foundation

Graphic Design: Irma Boom