Rem Koolhaas

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Rem Koolhaas
Born November 17, 1944; Rotterdam, Netherlands
Firms Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA)
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At Great Buildings http://www.GreatBuildings.com/architects/Rem_Koolhaas.html

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"In Europe, Koolhaas has completed a number of projects that have won high praise from critics, including a residence in Bordeaux, France; the Educatorium, a multifunction building for Utrecht University in the Netherlands; and the master plan and Grand Palais for Lille, France which is his largest realized urban planning project."

— Rem Koolhaas Wins Pritzker Prize 2000, ArchitectureWeek, June 7, 2000 (includes project photos)

A Dutch graduate of the AA School in London, Rem Koolhas is both a rhetorical architect and a creator of real physical buildings. He has been considered a noted Deconstructivist at least since the major MOMA exhibition in New York during 1987 or 1988, although Koolhaas tends perhaps toward the more humanist, less absolute branch of the Deconstructivist school.

— Great Buildings Online

Mr. Koolhaas believes in the idea of social progress. The pace of global change leaves himunfazed and optimistic. His work eagerly reforges the broken link between technology andprogress. He revels in the unexpected rather than passively anticipating agony. Perhaps asa Dutchman, imprinted with his country's role as an international trading center, he hasfewer problems with global change than might someone of another nationality. The Dutch,a nation of traders, have not surprisingly spawned an architect whose work responds tothe silent, nanosecond transnational flows of money and ideas.

Mr. Koolhaas also notes the Dutch pride in the national trait of economy and thrift. Heactually likes "the integration of the notion of cheapness to create sublime conditions" andis philosophical about "the client as chaos." "Chaos simply happens. You cannot aspire tochaos; you can only be an instrument of it."

— from "Rem Koolhaas, Post-Nationalist Architect", The New York Times, September 11, 1994.

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"Architects, for the first time in several decades, are being solicited for their power tophysically articulate new visions," says Mr. Koolhaas, in person charming, unassuming,hyperarticulate. "Once again one feels a belief in the propagandistic nature of architecture."

— Rem Koolhaas, quoted in "Rem Koolhaas, Post-Nationalist Architect", The New York Times, September 11, 1994.

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Rem Koolhaas
Office for Metropolitan Architecture
Heer Bokelweg 149
3032 AD Rotterdam
The Netherlands
vox +31 (0)10 24 38 200
fax +31 (0)10 24 38 202
email: pr@oma.nl

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  • Rem Koolhaas, Bernard Colenbrander, Michelle Provoost. Dutchtown: A City Center Design by OMA/Rem. NAi Publishers/Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, March 2000. ISBN 9056621408.— Available at Amazon.com
  • Rem Koolhaas, Sanford Kwinter (Editor), Sze Tsung Leong (Illustrator). Rem Koolhaas Conversations With Students : Conversations With Students (Architecture at Rice, 30). Princeton Architectural Press, February 1996. ISBN 1885232020. — Available at Amazon.com
  • Rem Koolhaas, Bruce Mau. S,M,L,XL. Penguin USA, June 1998. ISBN 1885254865.— (Publisher Out of Stock, as of 2000.0418)

[edit] External Links

Office for Metropolitan Architecture — Rem Koolhaas official firm web site

Rem Koolhaas wins Pritzker Prize — Article in ArchitectureWeek No. 4, 2000.0607

CNN on Rem Koolhaas Pritzker Prize — Good coverage, and a great little slide show!

Rem Koolhaas summary on Archipedia — Including projects

Forget 40 Winks: 24 Hours of Rem - Metropolis, 2006.0905

  • "Market v. Meaning", by Giancarlo La Giorgia, ArchitectureWeek No. 344, 2007.0801, pD1.1
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