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Rem Koolhaas

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Also known as Remment Lucas Koolhaas, Remment Koolhaas

Dutch architect (1944-)

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Rem Koolhaas is a male architect, urban planner, writer, and theorist born in Rotterdam in 1944. He is a citizen of the Kingdom of the Netherlands and was educated at the Architectural Association School of Architecture. His professional affiliations include Harvard University and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Koolhaas is associated with the deconstructivism movement and has worked in New York City and Rotterdam. His notable works include the Kunsthal, Nederlands Dans Theater, House of Representatives, and Seattle Central Library. He has received the Pritzker Architecture Prize, the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture, the Royal Gold Medal, and the Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent. His works are held in the collections of the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Design Museum Gent, Museum of Modern Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

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Person · Open Library

Works
101

Top works

  • Shopping and [line through word] as the city
  • The Harvard guide to shopping
  • Lagos handbook, or a brief description of what may be the most radical urban condition on the planet
  • Tales of communism
  • Shopping identities

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Film & TV

Known for

  • La Casa Di Cini Boeri2024
  • Point of Origin - Building a house in Austria2023
  • OnderOns — Self - Guest2022
  • REM2016
  • だれも知らない建築のはなし2015
  • The Making of an Avant-Garde: The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies 1967-1984 — Self2013
  • Urbanized — Self2011
  • Rem Koolhaas: A Kind of Architect2008
  • Here Is Always Somewhere Else — Himself2007
  • Berlin Babylon — Self2001

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Given name
Lucas
Gender
male
Place of birth
Rotterdam
Occupation
professor
Position held
full professor
Languages spoken
German
Native language
English language
Participant in
documenta x
Field of work
product design
Image
Rem Koolhaas 2013.jpg
Work location
Rotterdam
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Rem Koolhaas
date of birth
1944-01-01
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floruit
2008-01-01
name in native language
Remment Lucas Koolhaas
short name
Rem Koolhaas
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Works in European collections

2 objects attributed to Rem Koolhaas, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

Remment Lucas Koolhaas ( Dutch: [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.

He is seen by some as one of the significant architectural thinkers and urbanists of his generation, by others as a self-important iconoclast. In 2000, Rem Koolhaas won the Pritzker Prize. In 2008, Time put him in their top 100 of The World's Most Influential People. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2014.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rem Koolhaas” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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