Remment Lucas " Rem " Koolhaas (; born ) 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.

Koolhaas celebrates the " chance-like " nature of city life: " The City is an addictive machine from which there is no escape " " Rem Koolhaas ... defined the city as a collection of “ red hot spots .” ( Anna Klingmann ).

A key aspect of architecture that Koolhaas interrogates is the " Program ": with the rise of modernism in the 20th century the " Program " became the key theme of architectural design.

With his Prada projects, Koolhaas ventured into providing architecture for the fleeting world of fashion and with celebrity-studded cachet: not unlike Garnier's Opera, the central space of Koolhaas ' Beverly Hills Prada store is occupied by a massive central staircase, ostensibly displaying select wares, but mainly the shoppers themselves.

With his Rotterdam office Koolhaas is also designing a science center for Hamburg ’ s Hafencity.

OMA New York: the office in Manhattan Koolhaas is leading by Shohei Shigematsu is now designing an extension of Cornell University ( NY ), 111 First Street, a high rise residential building and hotel in Jersey City ( NJ ) and a high end residential tower with CAA screening room at One Madison Park in NYC.

OMA Beijing: In Asia, Koolhaas is working with his team on the office ’ s largest project to date, the 575, 000 m2 China Central Television Headquarters ( CCTV ) and Television Cultural Center ( TVCC ), currently under construction in Beijing and due for completion in 2008.

* May 23-Seattle Central Library, designed by Rem Koolhaas, is opened to the public.

* October 31: Kunsthal in Rotterdam, designed by Rem Koolhaas is opened.

OMA ( Office for Metropolitan Architecture ), is a Rotterdam based architecture firm of Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas.

Although full of ‘ first mistakes ’, the Dance Theater is the first realized design in which the ideas of Rem Koolhaas were made apparent.

The CCTV Headquarters is now based in Chaoyang District, designed by Rem Koolhaas in late 2009.

For instance, the manufacturing company Vitra is well known for the works of notable architects that make up its premises in Weil am Rhein, Germany ; including Zaha Hadid, Álvaro Siza, and Frank Gehry ; as is the fashion house Prada for commissioning Rem Koolhaas to design their flagship stores in New York and Los Angeles.

OMA's current partners are Rem Koolhaas, Ellen van Loon, Reinier de Graaf, Shohei Shigematsu, Iyad Alsaka, David Gianotten and managing partner Victor van der Chijs.

Koolhaas first came to public and critical attention with OMA ( The Office for Metropolitan Architecture ), the office he founded in 1975 together with architects Elia Zenghelis, Zoe Zenghelis and ( Koolhaas's wife ) Madelon Vriesendorp in London.

In 2003 Content, a 544-page magazine-style book designed by &&& Creative and published by Koolhaas, gives an overview of the last decade of OMA projects including his designs for the Prada shops, the Seattle Public Library, a plan to save Cambridge from Harvard by rechanneling the Charles River, Lagos ' future as Earth's third-biggest town, as well as interviews with Martha Stewart and Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown.

It led Rem Koolhaas and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture ( OMA ) to create a new company, AMO, exclusively dedicated to the investigation and performance in this realm.

During these talks and as an impetus for further discussion, Koolhaas and his think-tank AMO – an independent part of OMA – suggested the development of a visual language.

Koolhaas now heads offices in Europe ( OMA * AMO Rotterdam ), North America ( OMA * AMO Architecture PC New York ) and Asia ( OMA Beijing ).

The architectural design, by Rem Koolhaas and OMA, was determined in 2009 in an international competition.

From the ' 80s to the present Rem Koolhaas and his Office for Metropolitan Architecture ( OMA ) became one of the leading world architects.

Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramus of OMA / LMN were the principal architects and Hoffman Construction Company of Portland, Oregon, was the general contractor.

Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramus of the Dutch firm Office for Metropolitan Architecture ( OMA ), working in conjunction with the Seattle firm LMN Architects, served as the building's principal architects.

The Seattle Central Library opened in 2004 and was designed by Rem Koolhaas and Joshua Prince-Ramus of OMA in a joint venture with LMN Architects and Front Inc.

So many delays plagued the house that it " became a record of our own ( OMA ’ s ) growing up " ( Koolhaas in S, M, L, XL ).

In 1998, Koolhaas founded AMO, a think tank within OMA dedicated to producing non-architectural work including exhibitions, branding campaigns, publishing, and energy planning.

During these talks and as an impetus for further discussion, Koolhaas and OMA suggested the development of a visual language.

* OMA, Office for Metropolitan Architecture, architecture firm found by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas

Programmatic innovation in the work of Koolhaas / OMA ".

This third incarnation of New Court was designed by Rem Koolhaas and his Office of Metropolitan Architecture ( OMA ) and provides 20, 992 square metres of office space in a building of 75 metres height ( with associated plant, servicing and car parking ).

Plans for redevelopment of the site were drawn up by Rem Koolhaas ’ practice OMA and submitted for planning permission to the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea in April 2009.

" Present-day neuroscientists including Bruce McEwen and Jaap Koolhaas believe that stress, based on years of empirical research, " should be restricted to conditions where an environmental demand exceeds the natural regulatory capacity of an organism.

The conversion, based on plans drafted by the Hamburg office of Schweger, as well as the extension of the Media Cube which takes account of the Koolhaas design, started in 1993.

Remment Koolhaas, usually abbreviated to Rem Koolhaas, was born on 17 November 1944 in Rotterdam, Netherlands to Anton Koolhaas ( 1912 – 1992 ) and Selinde Pietertje Roosenburg ( born 1920 ).

* Netherlands Embassy in Berlin opened, designed by Rem Koolhaas.

Koolhaas studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.

In 2000 Rem Koolhaas won the Pritzker Prize.

Rem Koolhaas has a brother, Thomas, and a sister, Annabel.

" It was a very important age for me ," Koolhaas recalls, " and I really lived as an Asian.

In 1969 Koolhaas co-wrote The White Slave, a Dutch film noir, and later wrote an unproduced script for American soft-porn king Russ Meyer.

Rem Koolhaas inspecting the Seattle Central Library model.

These schemes would attempt to put into practice many of the findings Koolhaas made in his book Delirious New York ( 1978 ), which was written while he was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York, directed by Peter Eisenman.

In September 2006, Rem Koolhaas was commissioned to develop 111 First Street in Jersey City across the Hudson River from Manhattan, working with real estate developer Louis Dubin.

In October 2008 Rem Koolhaas was invited for a European " group of the wise " under the chairmanship of former Spanish prime minister Felipe González to help ' design ' the future European Union.

As Koolhaas himself has acknowledged, this approach had already been evident in the Japanese Metabolist Movement in the 1960s and early 1970s.

The next landmark publication by Koolhaas was S, M, L, XL, together with Bruce Mau, Jennifer Sigler, and Hans Werlemann ( 1995 ), a 1376-page tome combining essays, manifestos, diaries, fiction, travelogues, and meditations on the contemporary city.

In another essay in the book, titled " The Generic City ", Koolhaas declares that progress, identity, architecture, the city and the street are things of the past: “ Relief … it ’ s over.

When it comes to transforming these observations into practice, Koolhaas mobilizes what he regards as the omnipotent forces of urbanism into unique design forms and connections organised along the lines of present day society.

For example, in his design for the new CCTV headquarters in Beijing ( 2009 ), Koolhaas did not opt for the stereotypical skyscraper, often used to symbolise and landmark such government enterprises, but instead designed a series of volumes which not only tie together the numerous departments onto the nebulous site, but also introduced routes ( again, the concept of cross-programming ) for the general public through the site, allowing them some degree of access to the production procedure.

Through his ruthlessly raw approach, Koolhaas hopes to extract the architect from the anxiety of a dead profession and resurrect a contemporary interpretation of the sublime, however fleeting it may be.

In 2005 Rem Koolhaas co-founded Volume Magazine together with Mark Wigley and Ole Bouman.

Following the signing of Treaties of Nice in May 2001, which made Brussels the de facto capital of the European Union, the then President of the European Commission, Romano Prodi and the Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt invited Koolhaas to discuss the necessities and requirements of a European capital.