Rem Koolhaas

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in Rotterdam, Netherlands

November 17, 1944

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http://www.oma.eu/

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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 him in their top 100 o...more

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Average rating: 4.11 · 1,983 ratings · 121 reviews · 70 distinct works · Similar authors

	Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan 4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 784 ratings — published 1978 — 8 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	S, M, L, XL by Rem Koolhaas, Bruce Mau (Goodreads Author) 4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 550 ratings — published 1995 — 4 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Content 3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 140 ratings — published 2003	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mutations by Rem Koolhaas, Harvard Project on the City 3.82 of 5 stars 3.82 avg rating — 139 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Project Japan... by Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist: An Oral History Of Metabolism by Rem Koolhaas, Hans Ulrich Obrist 4.36 of 5 stars 4.36 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2011	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Oma/Rem Koolhaas, 1987 1998 4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Conversations with Students by Rem Koolhaas, Rice University 3.52 of 5 stars 3.52 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La Ciudad Generica 4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2006	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Projects for Prada Part 1 by Rem Koolhaas (Editor), Miuccia Prada 3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2001	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Espacio Basura 3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“There are books that I own that somehow even without reading them they mean something to me. So I think people have a relationship with books in a library whether you’ve come specifically to read them or not.”
― Rem Koolhaas

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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

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“The Metropolis strives to reach a mythical point where the world is completely fabricated by man, so that it absolutely coincides with his desires.”
― Rem Koolhaas

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