your list seems like you know what type of architecture you are interested in except EEA. more in line with the others would be david adjaye.

true...eea is pretty much in the ball park tho on the outter reaches of modernism before we reach the completely digital offices...

cheers

none of those offices is remotely as exciting as OMA.

nothings as exciting as OMA. oh i just got a woody typing their famous initials.

those offices aren't trying to be 'exciting', they are trying to be good.

my sentiments exactly...


...i hate this whole blind admiration for 'wow', whats wrong with producing rock solid design fuelled by program, context and spatiallity?

seth stein, or
simon conder

also might interest you

very nice, thank you

I love Caruso St. John
I find "their" approach much softer but more pretty and thoughtful than OMA

i think their amazingly good, with a beatifully off-key approach...the way they play with their ecclectic influences is very poetic, and pushing british architecture forward

there is no life after OMA...

... but is there an AMO afterlife?

or AMO retfa efil ?

The long slide down hill......after OMA....

well thats something to look forward to then

cheers

or as they say, "OMA GOD!"

aren't you required to open your own office once leaving OMA?

does anyone leave OMA and go to a lesser known office and try to bring it up? or do they just wife swap between starchitects until they're too old to go that route?

I think you should go learn something on the opposite spectrum, like a practice that still hand drafts neo-Wren houses in Devon or Darbyshyre

@ architechnophilia,
Here here!
I heartily agree.

my classmate worked at OMA then moved back to canada to regular big ol corporate firm. said classmate is trying to run a studio/boutique arm within corporate firm, with limited success. said classmate is very likely going to be a partner in that office...so OMA experience worked as ticket to top of ladder in several hundred strong office...i suspect the quality of architecture will never be OMA level though.

you may be interested in alison brooks. more funk than caruso st john but not as blatantly intelligntsia as oma...

only one is in London, but you should go on to work for LAR/Fernando Romero, BIG/Bjarke Ingels, Work AC, Studio Gang, MVRDV, FOA, Xaveer de Geyter, Neutelings Riedijk, Hosoya Schaefer, and then REX.

Then you can be different and claim to be the grand-child of OMA.

No but seriously to answer your question I think FAT and Heatherwick Studio are interesting in London.

I'd recommend having a look at Stanton Williams, DSDHA, Make and maybe Allies and Morrison. (Obviously depends on the size of practice you want to be working for.) Then have a look through this if you're still unimpressed...

40 under 40

Is the whole point of working for starchitects is to become a starchitect?

in some cases thats more than likely true...in this case no...i just want to learn, and learn from the best...

sorry to necromance a dormant thread, just to say that's pretty much my viewpoint, plus those architects are pretty much my top choices, possibly with the addition of Haworth Tompkins, maybe Witherford Watson Mann. Rather intimidating that they're all AA/Cambridge/RCA grads, wonder what it's like for those from schools lower down the food chain to apply?
Any luck with applications to them?