Rem Koolhaas
Rem Koolhaas
Remment Lucas "Rem" Koolhaasis a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Koolhaas studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Koolhaas is the founding partner of OMA, and of its research-oriented counterpart AMO based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In 2005, he co-founded Volume Magazine together with Mark Wigley and Ole Bouman...
NationalityDutch
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth17 November 1944
CityRotterdam, Netherlands
Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen.
Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan condition—hyper-density—without once losing faith in it as the basis for a desirable modern culture. Manhattan's architecture is a paradigm for the exploitation of congestion.
The word 'celebrity' and the word 'architect' are basically incompatible.
I wanted to disconnect from contemporary architecture
The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt.
The City is an addictive machine from which there is no escape
If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it.
Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.