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Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers
Founded2008
FounderOscar Riera Ojeda
Headquarters locationShenzhen, China
Nonfiction topicsArchitecture
Official websiteoscarrieraojeda.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. 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.

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.

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]

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.

Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers has received more than 45 Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) Benjamin Franklin Awards for editorial and design excellence.[20]

References

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  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. (1997). 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. 40. Madrid: Kliczkowski: 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.
  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. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  16. ^ Ralph Johnson of Perkins + Will: Recent Works. Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers. December 3, 2012. p. 488. ISBN 978-9881512543.
  17. ^ Clear Light: The Architecture of Lauretta Vinciarelli (1st ed.). Oscar Riera Ojeda Publishers. 2014. ISBN 978-9881619594.
  18. ^ "Pina Petricone launches Concrete Ideas: Material to Shape a City". John Daniels Faculty at the University of Toronto. 18 January 2012.
  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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