Rem Koolhaas
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November 17, 1944
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Remmert Lucas Koolhaas (born 17 November 1944) is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and "Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design" at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, USA. Koolhaas studied at the Netherlands Film and Television Academy in Amsterdam, at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Koolhaas is the principal of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, or OMA, and of its research-oriented counterpart AMO, currently based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. In 2005 he co-founded Volume Magazine together with Mark Wigley and Ole Bouman.
In 2000 Rem Koolhaas won the Pritzker Prize. In 2008 Time put ...more
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Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan by Rem Koolhaas avg rating 4.20 — 249 ratings — published 1978 8 editions |
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S, M, L, XL by Rem Koolhaas, Bruce Mau avg rating 4.17 — 98 ratings — published 1995 4 editions |
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Content by Rem Koolhaas avg rating 3.66 — 74 ratings — published 2003 |
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El Croquis OMA / Rem Koolhaas (Issues 53+79) by Rem Koolhaas avg rating 4.36 — 11 ratings — published 2006 |
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OMA@work 1972-2000 by Rem Koolhaas avg rating 4.12 — 8 ratings — published 1999 3 editions |
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El Croquis 131/32: Rem Koolhaas-OMA I by Rem Koolhaas avg rating 4.57 — 7 ratings — published 2006 |
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What Is Oma: Considering Rem Koolhaas and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture by Rem Koolhaas avg rating 3.12 — 8 ratings — published 2004 |
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Conversations with Students by Rem Koolhaas avg rating 3.40 — 5 ratings — published 1996 |
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Projects for Prada Part 1 by Rem Koolhaas, Miuccia Prada avg rating 3.50 — 4 ratings — published 2001 |
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Volume 13: Ambition by Rem Koolhaas avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published 2007 |
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"Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise."
— Rem Koolhaas (S, M, L, XL)
— Rem Koolhaas (S, M, L, XL)
