Zollverein: World Heritage Site and Future Workshop

by Rem Koolhaas (Contributor)

This book documents the transformation of Zollverein, a disused coal mine in Essen, Germany, into a UNESCO World Heritage Site designed on the basis of a plan by Rem Koolhaas. The text and images show how design and monument preservation have turned the structure into a thriving cultural attraction.

224 pages, Hardcover

Published October 23, 2018

About the author

Remment Lucas Koolhaas 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. 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. In 2008, Time put him in their top 100 of The World's Most Influential People. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2014.