Rem koolhaas

Remment Lucas "Rem" Koolhaas, (AFI: ['rɛm 'kɔːlhas]; Rotterdam, Netherlands, November 17, 1944), known as Rem Koolhaas, is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urban planner, and Professor of the Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design in Harvard University. He is one of the representatives of deconstructivism and the author of Delirious New York.

Some see him as one of the truly important architectural and urban thinkers of his generation, and others as a self-important iconoclast. In 2000, Rem Koolhaas won the Pritzker Prize. In 2008, Time placed him among the 100 most influential people in the world. He was elected director of the Biennale di Venezia and the American Philosophical Society in 2014.

His work abandons the prescriptive commitment of the Modern Movement, announces the impossibility of the architect to install new beginnings in everyday life and practices an architecture that uncritically crystallizes the sociopolitical reality of the moment.^{[citation required]}

Biography

Koolhaas in 1987.

She was born in Rotterdam and spent four years of her teens in Indonesia. After finishing his school studies, the son of a writer and grandson of an architect, he absorbs both professions to develop them throughout his life. He initially devoted himself to journalism, working for a newspaper in The Hague.

Later, he studied architecture at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, where in 1972 he presented his thesis project entitled Exodus or the voluntary prisoners of architecture (in Spanish, Éxodus or the voluntary prisoners of the architecture). She carried out the project together with Madelon Vriesendorp, Zoe Zenghelis and Elia Zenghelis, who would later be his first partners at the O.M.A (Office for Metropolitan Architecture ) starting in 1975.

After returning to the Netherlands, Koolhaas established his architecture office in 1975 together with three partners (among them, Madelon Vriesendorp, his wife), which he named Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). OMA recently segregated a part of his work in a second AMO office.

Work

Casa da Música (Porto, Portugal)

McCormick Tribune (Chicago, United States)

Seattle Central Library (Seattle, United States)

China Central Television Headquarters (Pekín)

Koolhaas is an architect who projects buildings with clear physical consistency, in which the mass acquires a predominant character.

In 2000 Koolhaas received the Pritzker Prize, the most important international award for architecture.

The OMA studio currently employs 100 architects and designers, who work on numerous projects around the world. The most important that has recently been developed is the new Chinese television headquarters together with a cultural center, totaling 550,000 square meters, and built to coincide with the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

Koolhaas is also an architectural theorist and has published several books. Among the most important are: "S, M, L, XL", "Mutaciones", "Content" and "Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan".

In them you can see two of the great references of Koolhaas, Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe. Koolhaas uses the paranoid-critical methodology developed by Salvador Dalí to reflect on these two great masters of 20th century architecture and consider their position to justify his own evolution of contemporary architectural thought. These reflections fed important examples of OMA's built work.

Koolhaas reflects on the typology of the tower, introduces the New York skyscraper as the allegory of the “self-monument”: a construction essentially intended to reaffirm its mere presence and that stands out from the rest through its height, which monumentalizes it. The Tower of Babel is inescapably linked to the critical thought of Rem Koolhaas. In the text S, M, L, XL he builds a discourse around the destruction of the biblical tower and the construction of the new Babel & # 34;koolhaasiana & # 34; that begins its journey with the skyscraper to end up claiming a new state of monumentality.

Another facet of Koolhaas and perhaps the most important is his work as an urban planner, among which his special predilection for the use of congestion in his works predominates, such as in the projects for Lille or for Melun Senart, and his taste today for Asian cities.

He has taught at various schools and universities. Since 2000 he has been a visiting professor at Harvard University, he is probably currently the most influential and forceful architect on the international scene.

Representative works

• Euralille Centre (Lille, France)
• 1988 - Dance Theatre of the NetherlandsThe Hague, Netherlands (see Wikipedia in English: Netherlands Dance Theater)
• 1991 - Villa Dall'Ava (Saint-Cloud, Paris) (can be seen in: Villa dall'Ava (breakable link available on the Internet Archive; see history, first version and last).)
• 1991 - Nexus housing (Fukuoka, Japan)
• 1993 - Kunsthal Art Museum (Róterdam)
• 1993-97 - Multifunctional Building Educatorium, University of Utrecht (Utrecht, Netherlands)
• 1997-2003 - McCormick Tribune Campus Center (IIT Chicago, USA) (you can see Wikipedia in English in: McCormick Tribune Campus Center)
• 1998 - Detached house in Bordeaux (Burdeos, France) (can be seen in: Maison à Bordeaux)
• 1999 - Second Stage Theatre (New York)
• 2001-02 - Guggenheim Museum in Las Vegas, USA
• 2001-05 - Casa da Música (Portuguese, Portugal)
• 2004–09 - China Central Television Headquarters (Pekín, China) (CCTV Building)
• 2003 - Embassy of the Netherlands in Berlin (Berlin, Germany)
• 2003-05 - Museo de Arte de la Universidad Nacional de Seoul (Seoul)
• 2004-09 - Dee Theatre and Charles Wyly (Dallas, Texas) (you can see Wikipedia in English at:Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre)
• 2004 - Seattle Central Library (Seattle)
• 2006 - Serpentine Gallery Pavilion (London)
• 2006 - Shenzhen Stock Exchange (Shenzhen, China)
• 2006-09 - Milstein Hall, (Cornell) ([1])
• 2007 - Bicentennial Tower Project (Mexico, D.F.). Cancelled
• Centro de Congresos de Córdoba (Palacio del Sur) (Córdoba, Spain). Cancelled
• 2008–10 - Building 23 East 22nd Street (New York)
• 2008–10 - Bryghusprojektet, (Copenhague)
• 2009 - Riga Port City (Riga)
• 2009-13 - Rotterdam, Rotterdam
• 2010 - New Court, St. Swithin's Lane (London)
• Prada Store Design for the World (New York: 2003, Los Angeles: 2004)
• 2014 - Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, (Moscow)
• 2018 - National Library of Qatar

Awards

• 2000 Pritzker Award
• 2003: Praemium Imperiale
• 2004: RIBA Gold Medal
• 2005: Contemporary Architecture Award Mies van der Rohe
• 2007: Doctor Honoris Causa by the Catholic University of Lovaina, Belgium.