Koolhaas, Rem
Currently alive, at 63 years of age.
Nationality: Dutch
Categories: Architects, Professors
1944 – He was born on the 17th day of November this year in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
1952 – When Rem Koolhaas was eight, his parents moved to Jakarta, Indonesia, and lived there for four years. His father, in his writing, had strongly supported the Indonesian cause for autonomy from the colonial Dutch
1956- He worked as a reporter for the Haagse Post and as a screenwriter.
1968 – He first studied scriptwriting at the Dutch Film Academy, and was then a journalist for the Haagse Post before starting studies, in this year, in architecture at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London.
1972 – He further studies at Cornell University in New York.
1974- He won the Progressive Architecture Award with L. Spear.
1978- He conducted multiple projects in Holland, include expansion of the Hague's Parliament, driving him to move his practice (OMA) to Rotterdam
1980 – He first came to public and critical attention with OMA (The Office for Metropolitan Architecture), the office he founded in this year together with architects Elia Zenghelis, Zoe Zenghelis and (Koolhaas's wife) Madelon Vriesendorp in London.
1988 – This year, he teaches at the Technical University in Delft, the Netherlands.
1991- He won the Prix d'Architecture for Villa dall'Ava, Paris, France.
1992- He awarded for The Best Building in Japan for Housing, Fukuoka, Japan by the Architectural Institute of Japan.
2000- He wins the prestigious Pritzker Price for Architecture.
2005 – He co-founded Volume Magazine together with Mark Wigley and Ole Bouman.
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Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan by Rem Koolhaas (Paperback - Dec 1, 1997) In this fanciful volume, Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (O.M.A.), both analyzes and celebrates New York City. By suggesting the city as the site for...  Usually ships in 1 to 3 weeks |
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Mutations by Stefano Boeri and Harvard Project on the City and Muliplicity and Jean Attali and Moulier Boutang and Daniela Fabricius and Reinhold Grether and Sanford Kwinter and Celine Rozenblat and Saskia Sassen and Yorgos Simeoforidis and Nadia Tazi and Mckenzie Wark and Francois Chaslin and Bart Lootsma (Paperback - Mar 15, 2001) "A city is a plane of tarmac with some red hot spots of intensity," Rem Koolhaas, the pathbreaking architect and author of such semiotically seminal books asDelirious New Yorkand the more recentS, M,...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
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Lagos: How It Works by Rem Koolhaas (Paperback - Oct 25, 2008) Lagos: How it Works is the result of more than eight years of research in Lagos, Nigeria. As a symbol of West African urbanism, Lagos contradicts almost every defining feature of the "modernâ... Not yet published |
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Content by Rem Koolhaas (Paperback - May 1, 2004) It's shaped like a trade paperback book, but its hellzapoppin pages look like a glossy, madcap magazine. Really,Contentis more like an explosion in an idea factory, or a wild party thrown by Pritzker...  |
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Serpentine Gallery: 24-hour Interview Marathon: London by Rem Koolhaas and Hans U. Obrist (Paperback - Apr 30, 2008) Every year the Serpentine Gallery, locatedin the heart of Hyde Park in central London,invites an internationally renowned architector designer to design a temporary pavilion intheir grounds for the... |
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Great Leap Forward / Harvard Design School Project on the City by Jeffrey Inaba and Rem Koolhaas and Sze Tsung Leong (Hardcover - Feb 22, 2002) Authors: Bernard Chang, Mihai Craciun, Rem Koolhaas, Nancy Lin, Yuyang Liu, Katherine Orff, Stephanie Smith Design: Alice ChungHarvard Graduate School of Design's independent study seminar Project on...  |
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