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| Rem Koolhaas | |
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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Name | Rem Koolhaas |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Birth date | November 17, 1944 (age 63) |
| Birth place | Rotterdam, Netherlands |
| Work | |
| Practice name | Office for Metropolitan Architecture |
| Significant buildings | Casa da Música in Porto Seattle Central Library |
| Significant projects | Volume Magazine |
| Awards and prizes | RIBA Gold Medal, Praemium Imperiale, Pritzker Architecture Prize |
Remment Koolhaas, IPA: , (born November 17, 1944 in Rotterdam) 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, USA. Koolhaas first studied scriptwriting at the Dutch Film Academy, and was then a journalist for the Haagse Post before starting studies, in 1968, in architecture at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, followed, in 1972, by further studies at Cornell University in New York. Koolhaas is the principal of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, or OMA, and of its research-oriented counterpart AMO, currently based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. In 2005 he co-founded Volume Magazine together with Mark Wigley and Ole Bouman. Slated for May 2008, his past manifesto work will be published alongside new wave architect Jim Bogle in an exhibition "Horizons: The Link for Progressive Architecture".
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