Taipei Performing Arts Center

An ancient art form for civic participation, theater has evolved into the modern world as a vocation of the culturally refined, with its significance in daily life diminished. Theater space is valued for its potency for formal cultural productions, rather

Zoe Zenghelis on Pursuing Creative Freedom

Painter and cofounder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture spoke with Metropolis about the early days of OMA, pursuing a career as an artist, and her new solo show at the Carnegie Museum of Art. By Molly Heintz

Curbed: Rem Koolhaas is the real diva

In the final installment of our summer series, Curbed’s architecture critic re-reads all 1,344 pages of the Dutch architect’s “S,M,L,XL” Curbed’s architecture critic Alexandra Lange takes a fresh look at classics of the architectural canon. S,M,L,XL does not hide its

Dresden 2025: Rem Koolhaas

Rem Koolhaas, one of the most important architects of our time, will kick off the international Neue Heimat Talks series of speeches. In an interview with the curator of Dresden’s application for European Capital of Culture 2025, Michael Schindhelm, he

“Rem Koolhaas (1944–) ” by Jack Self

“Koolhaas’s heroic trajectory provides an impossible formula for success, combining unquestioned genius with a waning culture of willingness to embrace the figure of the starchitect Rem Koolhaas does not do small talk. I discovered this last year in Melbourne when

Rem Koolhaas and David Gianotten on the countryside

Rem Koolhaas is among the most celebrated and exciting architects working today. From the gravity-defying CCTV Headquarters in Beijing to the startling Seattle Central Library to the hallucinogenic ‘vertical city’ De Rotterdam complex, the work of the office of the

The New Normal Showcase (2017)

date: 2017, July 3rd title: The New Normal Showcase: Benjamin Bratton, Rem Koolhaas and Janna Bystrykh location: Strelka Institute discussion: Benjamin Bratton, Rem Koolhaas, Janna Bystrykh

Jeffrey Kipnis “Sherman and Koolhaas, or how to see through a mirror clearly, face to face”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LEDueh5K58 Jeffrey Kipnis presented Reflections on “Sherman and Koolhaas, or how to see through a mirror clearly, face to face” at the Wexner Center for the Arts on Wednesday, November 8, 2017 at 4:30pm.

Rem Koolhaas video interview by Hubert-Jan Henket (2016)

date: 2016, September 6th title: Rem Koolhaas video interview by Hubert-Jan Henket

Strelka Institute

Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design is a non-profit international educational project, founded in 2009 and located in Moscow. Strelka incorporates an education programme on urbanism and urban development aimed at professionals with a higher education, a public summer

Fondaco dei Tedeschi by OMA

Architect: OMA Partners: Rem Koolhaas, Ippolito Pestellini Laparelli Project architects: Francesco Moncada, Silvia Sandor Preservation architect: TA Architettura S.r.l. Structural engineer: Tecnobrevetti S.r.l. MEP engineer: Politecnica Ingegneria e Architettura Safety and coordination plan: Antonio Girello Fire safety advisor: Sicurtecno Cost

Pritzker Prize

pritzkerprize.com Laureate: 2024: Riken Yamamoto (Japan) 2023: David Chipperfield (United Kingdom) 2022: Diébédo Francis Kéré (Burkino Faso) 2021: Anne Lacaton & Jean-Philippe Vassal (France) 2020: Yvonne Farrell & Shelley McNamara (Ireland) 2019: Arata Isozaki (Japan) 2018: Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi  (India) 2017: Rafael

RIBA Gold Medal

Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) The Royal Gold Medal for architecture[1] is awarded annually by the Royal Institute of British Architects on behalf of the British monarch, in recognition of an individual’s or group’s substantial contribution to international architecture.

Leone d’Oro

Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement Awards: 2021: Rafael Moneo 2018: Kenneth Frampton 2016: Paulo Mendes da Rocha 2014: Phyllis Lambert 2012: Alvaro Siza 2010: Rem Koolhaas 2008: Frank Gehry 2006: Richard Rogers 2004: Peter Eisenman 2002: Toyo Ito 2000: Renzo Piano 2000: Paolo

Petra Blaisse

Petra Blaisse (born 1955 in London, UK) is a Dutch designer.[1][2] She studied at art school in London and in Groningen. Her work is an intersection of the professions of architecture, interior architecture, textile design and urban architecture. Contents 1

Astor Place Presentation (1999)

date: 1999   location: Rotterdam, Netherlands   description: “This 60 minute homevideo came as an extra on the DVD of the brilliant film ‘A Kind Of Architect’.”    

Rem Koolhaas, Sci-Arc (1983)

November 16, 1983 “Rem Koolhaas describes the Office for Metropolitan Architecture’s recent Parc de la Villette competition entry. He goes into great detail describing every aspect of the entry, from inception to concept and analysis to project. Dozens of slides of the

Rem Koolhaas: Russia for Beginners

In 2015, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art’s new building will open to the public. Rem Koolhaas, the lead architect of this project, will discuss his experiences working in Russia and the challenges of preserving architectural heritage in the modern world.

Rem Koolhaas: A kind of Architect

OMA

oma.com Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) is an architecture firm based in Rotterdam that was founded in 1975 by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and Greek architect Elia Zenghelis, along with Madelon Vriesendorp and Zoe Zenghelis. Projects: Fondaco dei Tedeschi Concrete

Rem Koolhaas

Remment Lucas Koolhaas (Rem Koolhaas) founded OMA born November 17th, 1944 teaches at Harvard GSD previously unit master at AA Education: Architectural Association School of Architecture Cornell University Published: “Architecture has a serious problem today” fastcodesign.com May 21st, 2016 “Chasing

Harvard GSD

The Harvard Graduate School of Design (also known as The GSD) is a professional graduate school at Harvard University, located at Gund Hall, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The GSD offers masters and doctoral programs in architecture, landscape architecture, urban planning, urban design, real estate,[1] design engineering, and design studies. The GSD has over 13,000 alumni

Cronocaos Preservation

Festival of Ideas for the New City (New York, USA) 04 May 2011

Jennifer Sigler

Jennifer Sigler is an American editor, formerly based in Rotterdam. From 2013–2019 she was Editor in Chief at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where she revamped and oversaw Harvard Design Magazine[1], and created the series The Incidents, among other

Yves Brunier

Yves Brunier (1962 – 1991) was a French landscape architect best known for his collage illustrations and projects done in France and Belgium. Education Brunier was born on 10 November 1962 in Évian-les-Bains, France. He studied architecture in Grenoble, graduating

Madelon Vriesendorp

Rem Koolhaas – S, M, L, XL

Lecture date: 1995-11-29 Rem Koolhaas presents his innovative and influential publication S,M,L,XL. Designed in collaboration with Bruce Mau, written as a kamikaze critique of the work of the OMA office, Koolhaas describes the book as an architectural novel which aims

Rem Koolhaas – Salvador Dali, The Paranoid Critical Method, Le Corbusier, New York

Lecture date: 1976-12-18

Alain Fouraux

Born in Holland 1971, Alain got in touch with creative disciplines at a very early age, in the slipstream of his entrepreneurial creative parents. Through Audio registration, Radio advertising, Painting, Sculpture, Video productions, Animations, and Product design, Alain found a

Bruce Mau

Bruce Mau (born October 25, 1959) is a Canadian designer and educator. He started as a graphic designer but later focused on architecture, art, museums, film, eco-environmental design, and conceptual philosophy.[1] Mau serves as Visiting Professor at Pratt Institute in

Oswald Mathias Ungers

Oswald Mathias Ungers (12 July 1926 – 30 September 2007) was a German architect and architectural theorist, known for his rationalist designs and the use of cubic forms. Among his notable projects are museums in Frankfurt, Hamburg and Cologne. Biography