* 1944 – Rem Koolhaas, Dutch architect

* Rem Koolhaas, a Dutch architect

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.

In 2000 Rem Koolhaas won the Pritzker Prize.

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 ).

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

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.

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 ).

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.

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

The building was designed by the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas in 1988.

All Sant ' elia district will be changed, the old ruined apartment buildings will be demolished and a new district designed by Rem Koolhaas will rise.

Rem Koolhaas and the Office of Metropolitan Architecture proposed two projects for the Island in his book " Delirious New York ": the Welfare Island Hotel and the Roosevelt Island Redevelopment Proposal ( both in 1975-76 ).

Rem Koolhaas / Oma.

2000 laureate Rem Koolhaas

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.

Guest editors have included Rem Koolhaas, James Cameron, Will Wright, and JJ Abrams.

In 2001, Rem Koolhaas was commissioned to submit two designs for a $ 200 million expansion ; plans were dropped again in 2003, causing director Maxwell L. Anderson to resign.

The new campus center, designed by Rem Koolhaas, and a new state-of-the-art residence hall designed by Helmut Jahn, State Street Village, opened in 2003.

Architect Rem Koolhaas inspecting a model of the building.

) 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.

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.

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

Also included are Mobile Services and the Central Library ( opened 2004, designed by Rem Koolhaas ).

In 1986 Remington introduced the new Remington " Rem Choke " system of screw-in chokes ( also fitted to Remington model 1100 auto-loading shotguns at the same time ).

The Ante Rem, or fully realist, variation of structuralism has a similar ontology to Platonism in that structures are held to have a real but abstract and immaterial existence.

Along with Berezovsky, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Roman Abramovich, Vladimir Potanin, Vladimir Bogdanov, Rem Viakhirev, Vagit Alekperov, Viktor Chernomyrdin, Viktor Vekselberg, and Mikhail Fridman emerged as Russia's most powerful and prominent oligarchs.

The first new buildings on Main Campus since the " completion " of the Mies Campus in the early 1970s were finished in 2003 — Rem Koolhaas's McCormick Tribune Campus Center and Helmut Jahn's State Street Village.

These include the. 17 Mach II,. 17 Hornady Magnum Rimfire ( HMR ), 5mm Remington Magnum ( Rem Mag ),. 22 ( BB, CB, Short, Long, Long Rifle, Long Rifle shot, and various high-performance cartridge designs that work in weapons chambered for. 22 LR ), and. 22 Winchester Magnum Rimfire ( WMR ).

More recently, Koolhaas ( unsuccessfully ) proposed the inclusion of hospital units for the homeless into the Seattle Public Library project ( 2003 ).

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.

At the moment Koolhaas ' constructions sites are in China: the massive Central China Television Headquarters Building in Beijing, China, and the new building for the Shenzhen Stock Exchange, the equivalent of the NASDAQ in China.

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.

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.

" 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.