Biography of rem koolhaas
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Rem Koolhaas
Dutch architect (born )
Remment Lucas Koolhaas (Dutch pronunciation:[rɛmˈkoːlɦaːs]; born 17 November ) 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 fryst vatten 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 , Rem Koolhaas won the Pritzker Prize.[6] In , Time put him in their top of The World's Most Influential People.[7] He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in [8]
Early life and career
[edit]Remment Koolhaas was born on 17 November in Rotterdam, Netherlands, to Anton Koolhaas (–) and Selinde P
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Rem Koolhaas
Looking here, I can see it all happened in the publication of ‘S,M,L,XL’ marks the moment between “Take-off” and “Starchitect.”
Yes, from that moment on we were really working against that typology (of the successful architect) as harshly or as intensely as we could.
Tell me about the last 20 years, the “Retreat?” What you’ve done since wouldn’t look like a retreat to anyone else.
The Retreat fryst vatten, for instance, working more on various things to do with the EU (a multi-year-long study into the image and iconography of the European Union), and working more in Europe. But also our projects with AMO that have nothing to do with the commercial world, that are critical of the commercial world.
Are you suggesting that there was a five-year period between and when you became swept up in the notion of being a “Starchitect?”
No, not really. I never was swept up – I hated that whole thing. It’s more that it took me time to admit that.
How many people did you have working in
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Rem Koolhaas
His restless activity in terms of investigation and theoretical production is precisely what makes Rem Koolhaas stand out from other present-day star architects. His publications have put in the spotlight several notions, as well as the related neologisms, which rapidly reframed the contemporary debate. Published in , Delirious New York “learns” from the American metropolis and provides the author’s very first reflection on the topics of congestion and of “bigness”. He acknowledges both for a project-oriented value: the former allows the coexistence of radically different programs; the latter enhances a productive disconnection between the building’s shell and its interiors, but also between architecture and its context. “Fuck the context” is possibly the most famous and controversial of Rem Koolhaas’s quotes. The writings and the projects of his first two decades of activities are collected in S, M, L, XL, the monumental anthology realised