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  1. Department of Architecture. Rem Koolhaas, Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design, founded the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in 1975 together with Elia and Zoe Zenghelis and Madelon Vriesendorp. Having worked as a journalist and script writer before becoming an architect, Koolhaas graduated from the Architectural ...

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  2. www.moma.org › artists › 6956Rem Koolhaas | MoMA

    He is often cited as a representative of Deconstructivism and is the author of Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan. He is seen by some as one of the significant architectural thinkers and urbanists of his generation, by others as a self-important iconoclast. In 2000, Rem Koolhaas won the Pritzker Prize.

  3. Mar 31, 2016 · March 31, 2016. Seattle Public Library. Photo: Charlie Schuck. Known for his striking, often gravity-defying structures, Rem Koolhaas has built a reputation as one of the top architects of the ...

  4. Rem Koolhaas was born on November 17, 1944, in Rotterdam, Netherlands, just four years after the major seaport city was destroyed by German bombing during World War II (1939–45; war in which Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, the United States, and their allies defeated Germany, Italy, and Japan). His father, Anton, was a well-known ...

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    Remment Lucas Koolhaas was born in Rotterdam, Netherlands, on November 17, 1944. He spent four years of his youth in Indonesia, where his father, a novelist, served as cultural director. Following in the footsteps of his father, the young Koolhaas began his career as a writer. He was a journalist for the Haase Postin The Hague and later tried his h...

    In 1975, Koolhaas founded the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in London with Madelon Vriesendorm and Elia and Zoe Zenghelis. Zaha Hadid—a future winner of the Pritzker Architecture Prize—was one of their first interns. Focusing on contemporary design, the company won a competition for an addition to the Parliament in The Hague and a majo...

    Koolhaas is known for his pragmatic approach to design. The McCormick Tribune Campus Center in Chicago—completed in 2003—is a good example of his problem-solving. The student center is not the first structure to hug a rail—Frank Gehry's 2000 Experience Music Project (EMP) in Seattle has a monorail that goes directly through that museum, like a Disn...

    How are we to respond to structures with glass floors or erratically zigzagging stairs or shimmering translucent walls? Has Koolhaas ignored the needs and aesthetics of the people who will occupy his buildings? Or is he using technology to show us better ways to live? According to the Pritzker Prize jury, Koolhaas's work is as much about ideas as i...

    Oehmke, Philipp, and Tobias Rapp. “Interview with Star Architect Rem Koolhaas.” Spiegel Online, Der Spiegel, 16 Dec. 2011.
    Ouroussoff, Nicolai. “Koolhaas, Delirious in Beijing.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 11 July 2011.
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  5. They were later joined by one of Koolhaas's students, Zaha Hadid, who later left to achieve success on her own. Koolhaas was a Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard. In 2000 Koolhaas won the Pritzker Prize. In 2005 he co-founded Volume Magazine with Mark Wigley and Ole Bouman. In 2008 ...

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  7. Jul 9, 2000 · The site, on a hillside overlooking the French city, was also hampered by a web of restrictions: the house could only be nine meters high, it had to be surfaced with local materials and so on. Despite these constraints, Koolhaas eagerly took on the project. "For Rem, the more difficulties you give him, the better he is," the wife says.

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