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.

Events that have been held here include " ABCDF Palabras de Ciudad " ( 2002 ) showing life in popular housing in photographs and video, " Bordados del Mexico Antiguo " ( Embroidery of Old Mexico ) showing processes, history and design, Rem Koolhaas Premio Pritzker 2000 " conference and " Exchanging Views: Visions of Latin America " which was an exhibit from the collection of Patricia Phelps de Cisneros comprising 148 works by 72 artists from across Latin America in 2006.

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.

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 ).

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.

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.

The Educatorium Building, which was designed by Rem Koolhaas, contains a glass-bottomed walking bridge and circular walls.

) Other notable buildings are the Washington Mutual Tower, Two Union Square, Nordstrom ’ s flagship store, Benaroya Hall, the new Seattle Central Library designed by Rem Koolhaas, and the main building of the Seattle Art Museum ( built 1991, expanded 2007 ), the main facade of which was designed by Robert Venturi.

This motivated Muschamp to engage in boisterous conversations outside the home in later years, particularly in the company of such up-and-coming architects as Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio, Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Jean Nouvel, Bernard Tschumi and Tod Williams, which formed the basis for his perceptive and often vehement architectural commentary and criticism.

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

Following the signing of Treaties of Nice in May 2001, which made Brussels the official capital of Europe, 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.

To this end, an international architect ’ s competition for the new building was announced on March 1989, from which the visionary design by Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas was to result.

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.

In 1999, the Parc Downsview Park announced an International Design Competition in attempt to turn Downsview Park into an urban park, and potentially one of the largest ones in the world, in which Bruce Mau Design, Rem Koolhaas, Oleson Worland, and Petra Blaisse submitted the winning design scheme, known as " Tree City.

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.

* Project for a New Dimension – prepared by Office for Metropolitan Architecture, led by Mr Rem Koolhaas.

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

Koolhaas is the founding partner of OMA, and of its research-oriented counterpart AMO, currently based in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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.

They felt that it was dehumanizing to have all of their movements tracked with RFID chips.

Small head movements are tracked and then translated into much larger virtual in-game movements, allowing hands-free view control and improved immersiveness.

Their movements are tracked by metal collars, which contain tracking and listening devices ; if any student should attempt to escape the Program, or enter declared forbidden zones ( which are randomly selected at the hours of 12 and 6, both a. m. and p. m .), a bomb will be detonated in the collar, killing the wearer.

The PAF closely monitored and tracked the IAF's movements near the Line of Control in Kashmir as well as the India-Pakistan international border.

Cameras on the shuttle recorded the PAMS satellite as it was deployed and tracked its movements.

A CAVE user's movements are tracked by the sensors and the video adjusts accordingly.

There is evidence that the Maya also tracked the movements of Mercury, Mars and Jupiter, and possessed a zodiac of some kind.

Intelligence tracked their movements and are able to locate the hostages at an abandoned temple in the jungles of Hohn Kaen.

Their movements are tracked by a moderator and undesirable websites are blocked.

The Maya may have also tracked the movements of other planets, including Mars, Mercury, and Jupiter.

It is moved from cache to cache, with a unique tracking number allowing its movements to be tracked online ( www. geocaching. com ).

The AP story in particular claimed that Comet Systems tracked its users ' movements online.

Flying over to the ministry of science, Astro finds Ochanomizu " already busy ", since he has tracked down Pluto's hideout by monitoring his movements, and flies over by plane to the hideout.