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Rem Koolhaas

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November 17, 1944 in Rotterdam, Netherlands

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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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Books by Rem Koolhaas

Average rating: 4.08 · 1257 ratings · 97 reviews · 60 distinct works

	Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan 422 avg rating — 494 ratings — published 1978 — 7 editions	My rating:
	S, M, L, XL by Rem Koolhaas, Bruce Mau 414 avg rating — 317 ratings — published 1995 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Content 373 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	Mutations by Rem Koolhaas, Harvard Project on the City 381 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Oma/Rem Koolhaas, 1987 1998 425 avg rating — 32 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Mutations by Rem Koolhaas, Stefano Boeri 386 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	Conversations with Students by Rem Koolhaas, Rice University 360 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1996 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Project Japan... by Rem Koolhaas and Hans Ulrich Obrist: An Oral History Of Metabolism by Rem Koolhaas, Hans Ulrich Obrist 458 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	La Ciudad Generica 400 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Projects for Prada Part 1 by Rem Koolhaas, Miuccia Prada 358 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2001	My rating:

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“Find optimism in the inevitable”
― 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 cosmetic is cosmic.”
― Rem Koolhaas, Content

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