Person Rem Koolhaas

* in Rotterdam / Nederland lives and works in London / United Kingdom, Rotterdam / Nederland

Rem Koolhaas was working intially as a journalist and screen writer, Koolhaas studied architecture at the Architectural Association School, London, and the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, New York. Since 1975, when he created the Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), he has been working as an architect. Realised projects include the Netherlands Dance Theatre in The Hague, Nexus Housing in Fukuoka, Japan, the Kunsthal in Rotterdam, the master plan for Euralille and the Lille Grand Palais in Lille, France, and the Guggenheim Museum in Las Vegas. Several residential projects include the Dutch House in the Netherlands and the Villa dall’Ava in Paris. More recently, OMA finished the Educatorium, a lecture hall for the University of Utrecht and the Maison à Bordeaux. Current projects include a commission for a master plan and two buildings for the Samsung Corporation Centre for Social Studies, the Museum of Korean Art and the Seoul National University Museum in Korea, a master plan for Universal Studios in Los Angeles, a master plan for the City Center in Almere, Netherlands, the master plan for the Hanoi New Town in Vietnam, the Netherlands Embassy in Berlin, a master plan for the Song Do New Town for Inchon, Korea, and the new McCormick Tribune Campus Centre for the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Rem Koolhaas and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture have been the subject of numerous publications, monographs, and several documentary films. The work of the office has been exhibited internationally, including retrospectives such as the first decade in the museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam in 1989 and Rem Koolhaas and the Place of Public Architecture in the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1995. Koolhaas has published Delirious New York (1978), S, M, L, XL (1995), and since 1995, he has been professor at Harvard University, where he is leading a series of research projects for the ”Harvard Project in the City”, a student-based research group studying different issues affecting the urban condition. Recent projects include the following studies: Five cities in the Pearl River Delta in China, ”The Roman System”, focusing on the ancient Roman city, ”Shopping”, an analysis of the role of retail consumption in the contemporary city, and ”Lagos”, a study of the African city, focusing specifically on Lagos, Nigeria.

2010 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement for the 12th International Architecture Exhibition (Architecture Biennale 2010, Venice)
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Objects (17)

(Archival material, Publications)

Year
2010 Rem Koolhaas bekommt Goldenen Löwen für Lebenswerk (Text)
2006 Bildersprache für Europa (Text)
2006 Die Kunst, mit dem Wasser zu bauen (Text)
2005 Die kleine Großstadt/ The Little City (Text)
2005 Kunst: Schöne Aussichten (Text)
2005 51. International Art Exhibition. Always a little further (Publication)
2005 Biennale: Raus aus Peggys Badezimmer (Text)
2005 Das Mädchen auf dem Nilpferd (Text)
2002 Gescheite(rte) Zusammenarbeit (Text)
2002 Schuhe statt Kunst (Text)
2002 Verkaufskultur (Text)
2002 Aus dem Chaos lernen (Text)
2002 Die Stadt bleibt draußen (Text)
2002 Die Kunst im Chaos (Text)
2001 Wie Raubtiere in der Shoppingmall (Text)
2001 Erlebnistrunkenes Wandeln (Text)
1997 Cities on the Move (Publication)

Exhibitions / events (16)

Year
2007 10th International Istanbul Biennial, 10th International Istanbul Biennial, Uluslararasi Istanbul Bienali'ni, Istanbul
2007 Isa Genzken Special, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
2006 Architektur und Globalität, Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, Berlin
2006 Architektur im Ringturm. Europas beste Bauten, Wasserturm am Wienerberg, Wien
2006 Le Mouvement des Images. Art. Cinéma, Centre Georges Pompidou - Musée national d’art mod, Paris
2005 Projekt Migration - Ausstellung, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln, Projekt Migration, Köln, Öffentlicher Raum Köln, Köln
2005 changing architecture. Rem Koolhaas: "Recent Works", Museum für angewandte Kunst, MAK, Wien
2005 51. International Art Exhibition. Always a Little Further, Arsenale Venezia, Venezia, LI. Esposizione Internationale d'Arte, La Biennale di Venezia, Venezia
2003 La Ciudad Ideal. 2a Bienal de Valencia, Bienal de Valencia
2002 Plattform4_Documenta11. Under Siege: Four African Cities, Freetown, Johannesburg, Kinshasa, Lagos (Unter Belagerung: Vier afrikanische Städte, Freetown, Johannesburg, Kinshasa, Lagos), Goethe-Institute Inter Nationes Lagos, Lagos, documenta und Museum Fridericianum gGmbH, Kassel (Vortrag)
2001 CTRL [SPACE] Rhetorik der Überwachung von Bentham bis Big Brother, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, ZKM, Karlsruhe
2001 The Magic Hour. Die Konvergenz von Kunst und Las Vegas, Künstlerhaus Graz, Graz, Steirischer Herbst 2001, Graz
2000 The Un-Private House, Museum für angewandte Kunst, MAK, Wien (Architektur)
1997 Cities on the Move. Contemporary Asian Art on the turn of the 21st century, CAPC - Musée d'art Contemporain, Bordeaux, Lousiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, MoMA PS1, New York, Vereinigung Bildender KünstlerInnen Wiener Secession, Wien
1997 documenta X, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Ottoneum, Kassel, documenta und Museum Fridericianum gGmbH, Kassel, documenta-Halle, Kassel
1996 Die Schrift des Raumes, Kunst Architektur Kunst, Kunsthalle Wien, Wien