12.8.14 | Rotterdam, Netherlands | The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) has appointed David Gianotten to serve as managing partner-architect.

After the recent expansion of the OMA partnership to ten partners, David has been appointed to lead OMA worldwide as managing partner-architect, overseeing the firm’s offices in Rotterdam, Hong Kong, Beijing, Doha and New York. He will be primarily responsible for the daily operations, business growth, and long-term strategy of the company.

Alongside his managerial tasks, David will remain actively involved in OMA’s creative and architectural work, and will continue to oversee some of his ongoing projects in Asia and Australia.

In early 2015, David will relocate from Hong Kong to The Netherlands, allowing him to work more closely with all of OMA’s partners, associates, creative teams, and support staff in the company’s five offices worldwide.
 
In his previous role as partner-in-charge of OMA’s Hong Kong and Beijing offices and director of OMA Asia, David Gianotten led the firm’s large portfolio in the Asia Pacific region. Projects under his design and supervision include the Taipei Performing Arts Centre in Taiwan, the Hanwha Galleria in Busan Korea, the Taiyuan Industrial Heritage masterplan in China, and the Prince Plaza Building in Shenzhen China. David was responsible for the recently completed Shenzhen Stock Exchange headquarters, the end stages of the CCTV headquarters in Beijing, and OMA's conceptual masterplan for the West Kowloon Cultural District in Hong Kong.

David joined OMA in 2008, launched OMA's Hong Kong office in 2009, and became partner at OMA in 2010. He studied architecture and construction technology at Eindhoven University of Technology, and before joining OMA was Principal Architect at SeARCH in the Netherlands.

OMA

OMA is a leading international partnership practicing architecture, urbanism, and cultural analysis. OMA’s buildings and masterplans around the world insist on intelligent forms while inventing new possibilities for content and everyday use. AMO, a research and design studio, works in areas beyond architecture that today have an increasing influence on architecture itself: media, politics, renewable energy, technology, publishing, fashion.

OMA is led by ten partners – Rem Koolhaas, Ellen van Loon, Reinier de Graaf, Shohei Shigematsu, Iyad Alsaka, David Gianotten, Chris van Duijn, Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli, Jason Long, and Michael Kokora – and maintains an international practice with offices in Rotterdam, New York, Beijing, Hong Kong, and Doha.