Rem Koolhaas | |
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Born | Remment Lucas Koolhaas 17 November 1944 Rotterdam, Netherlands |
Alma mater | Architectural Association School of Architecture, Cornell University |
Occupation(s) | Architect Architectural theorist Urbanist |
Awards | Pritzker Prize (2000) Praemium Imperiale (2003) Royal Gold Medal (2004) Leone d'oro alla carriera (2010) Rolf Schock Prize (2022) |
Practice | Office for Metropolitan Architecture |
Buildings | Casa da Música in Porto De Rotterdam Seattle Central Library Netherlands Embassy Berlin China Central Television Headquarters Qatar National Library |
Projects | Delirious New York, S,M,L,XL Volume Magazine |
Remment Lucas Koolhaas (Dutch pronunciation: [rɛm ˈkoːlɦaːs]; 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. He is often cited as a representative of Deconstructivism and is the author of Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan.[1]
He is seen by some as one of the significant architectural thinkers and urbanists of his generation, by others as a self-important iconoclast.[2][3][4][5] In 2000, Rem Koolhaas won the Pritzker Prize.[6] In 2008, Time put him in their top 100 of The World's Most Influential People.[7] He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2014.[8]
Koolhaas' habit of shaking up established conventions has made him one of the most influential architects of his generation. A disproportionate number of the profession's rising stars, including Winy Maas of the Dutch firm MVRDV and Bjarke Ingels of the Copenhagen-based BIG, did stints in his office. Architects dig through his books looking for ideas; students all over the world emulate him. The attraction lies, in part, in his ability to keep us off balance. Unlike other architects of his stature, such as Frank Gehry or Zaha Hadid, who have continued to refine their singular aesthetic visions over long careers, Koolhaas works like a conceptual artist—able to draw on a seemingly endless reservoir of ideas.