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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 Dutch architect born in 1944 who has become one of the most influential figures in contemporary architecture and urban design. His work and theoretical writings have shaped modern thinking about how cities function and how buildings should be designed in response to contemporary culture and society.

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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

Acting

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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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Netherlands
Active from
1944

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
16
Total plays
49

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Quotes

  • Architecture is a dangerous mixture of power and impotence.
  • Find optimism in the inevitable.
  • I live in a Victorian apartment building in London.
  • The city is no longer. We can leave the theatre now.
  • Bigness is no longer part of any urban tissue. (...) Its subtext is fuck context.
  • Japan lives with drastic segregation between the sublime, the ugly, and the utterly without qualities. Dominance of the last 2 categories makes mere presence of the first stunning: when beauty 'happens', it is absolutely surprising.

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Rem Koolhaas
date of birth
1944-01-01
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Rem Koolhaas
floruit
2008-01-01
name in native language
Remment Lucas Koolhaas
short name
Rem Koolhaas
Sources (15)

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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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Article

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.

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