The New York Times has yet another story on the misfortunes of OMA: Post Prada, a Design Darling Slims Down. But what’s the surprise? With the dot.com economy’s crash, one would think that the proponents of the ‘new managerialism’ would have seen the handwriting on the wall. Not yet apparently. And although Rem states that he prefers to reinvent rather than reassert, he doesn’t realize that in contemporary practice the first thing that must be subject to perpetual reinvention is the architect.