Rem Koolhaas
Dutch architect, theorist, and urbanist; author of Delirious New York; Pritzker Prize winner.
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He won the Pritzker Prize in 2000 and was listed in Time's top 100 most influential people in 2008.[1] Remment Lucas Koolhaas, born 17 November 1944, holds the title Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design, and is additionally a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, and urbanist.[2] Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan* was written by Koolhaas, who is frequently described as a deconstructivist representative.[2]
Quick Facts
- Birth name
- Remment Lucas Koolhaas
- Born
- 17 November 1944
- Birthplace
- Rotterdam, Netherlands
- Education
- Architectural Association School of Architecture; Cornell University
- Occupation
- Architect
- Architectural theorist
- Urbanist
- Practice
- Office for Metropolitan Architecture
- Significant projects
- Delirious New York
- S,M,L,XL
- Volume Magazine
Facts from the source article.
Life and work
His maternal grandfather was modernist architect Dirk Roosenburg.[3] He co-wrote the film The White Slave in 1969 and later wrote an unproduced script for Russ Meyer.[4] Koolhaas founded the firm OMA with his then-wife Madelon Vriesendorp and Elia and Zoe Zenghelis.[5] He was previously married to artist Madelon Vriesendorp, with whom he has two children, and has been with partner Petra Blaisse since 1986.[6][7]
A Commonwealth Fund (Harkness) Fellowship was awarded to Koolhaas in 1972, enabling him to study under Oswald Mathias Ungers at Cornell University and later at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York City.[8]
What the cited sources add
The same source notes that his father moved the family to Jakarta when Koolhaas was eight.[5] The Observer article by Adams reports that Koolhaas's father strongly supported Indonesian autonomy and ran a cultural program there.[9] The W Magazine profile by Lubow describes Koolhaas as viewing the "starchitect" phenomenon with suspicion.[7] That profile also notes that Koolhaas now lives in Amsterdam opposite the Montessori school he attended as a boy.[7]
References
- Wikipedia, "Rem Koolhaas" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Michael Kimmelman, "Why Rem Koolhaas Brought a Tractor to the Guggenheim", The New York Times, 20 February 2020, accessed online.; Ouroussoff, Nicolai, "Why is Rem Koolhaas the World's Most Controversial Architect?", September 2012; Quirk, Vanessa, "Rem Koolhaas: A Reluctant Architect", ArchDaily.com, 17 November 2012; Kunkel, Patrick, "Ingrid Böck's 'Six Canonical Projects by Rem Koolhaas' Dissects the Ideas that have Made Koolhaas' Career", ArchDaily.com, 28 July 2015; Chevalier, Michel, "Luxury Brand Management", John Wiley & Sons, 2012 en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Rem Koolhaas" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Caves, "Encyclopedia of the City", Routledge, 2004, p. 411 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Rem Koolhaas" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Moor, "Koolhaas, Anthonie (1912–1992)", Biografisch Woordenboek van Nederland, 13 March 2008; "Anthonie Koolhaas", De Boekenweek; Anker, "Dirk Roosenburg", Archipedia (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Wikipedia, "Rem Koolhaas" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Becker, "Oedipus Rem.", Repeat: Writings on Architecture, 10 October 2007 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- "Spotlight: Rem Koolhaas", ArchDaily, 17 November 2018. facts only, no text reused. archdaily.com
- Wikipedia, "Rem Koolhaas" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Lubow, "Rem Koolhaas Is Not a Starchitect", The W Magazine, 9 June 2014; Lubow, "Rem Koolhaas Is Not a Starchitect", W Magazine, 9 June 2014; Lubow, "Rem Koolhaas Is Not a Starchitect", The W Magazine, 9 June 2014; Lubow, "Rem Koolhaas Is Not a Starchitect", W Magazine, 9 June 2014 (we also read that source) en.wikipedia.org
- Lubow, "Rem Koolhaas Is Not a Starchitect", W Magazine, 9 June 2014. facts only, no text reused. wmagazine.com
- Wikipedia, "Rem Koolhaas" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Harkness Fellows, 1925–1997", www.commonwealthfund.org (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
- Adams, "Metropolis Now", The Observer, Guardian Unlimited, 25 June 2006. facts only, no text reused. theguardian.com
Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Rem Koolhaas (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.
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