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Rem Koolhaas
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Dutch architect (1944-)
OverviewAI-generated
Rem Koolhaas is a Dutch architect, urban planner, writer, and theorist born in Rotterdam. He is associated with the deconstructivism movement and has worked in New York City and Rotterdam. His notable works include the Kunsthal, Nederlands Dans Theater, House of Representatives, and Seattle Central Library. Koolhaas has received the Pritzker Architecture Prize, European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture, Royal Gold Medal, and Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent.
He studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Koolhaas has been employed by Harvard University and speaks English and German. His spouse is Madelon Vriesendorp, who is also listed as a business partner along with Elia Zenghelis. His works are held in collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, and Design Museum Gent.
Synthesized by Vinony from 38 facts across 10 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Wikiquote, Europeana Sparql, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 101
Top works
- Shopping and [line through word] as the city
- The Harvard guide to shopping
- Lagos handbook, or a brief description of what may be the most radical urban condition on the planet
- Tales of communism
- Shopping identities
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Acting
Known for
- La Casa Di Cini Boeri2024
- Point of Origin - Building a house in Austria2023
- OnderOns — Self - Guest2022
- REM2016
- だれも知らない建築のはなし2015
- The Making of an Avant-Garde: The Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies 1967-1984 — Self2013
- Urbanized — Self2011
- Rem Koolhaas: A Kind of Architect2008
- Here Is Always Somewhere Else — Himself2007
- Berlin Babylon — Self2001
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 16
- Total plays
- 49
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Coping styles in animals: current status in behavior and stress-physiology
· 1999 · cited 2,406x
- The Simons Genome Diversity Project: 300 genomes from 142 diverse populations
· 2016 · cited 1,495x
- Ancient human genomes suggest three ancestral populations for present-day Europeans
· 2014 · cited 1,332x
- Stress revisited: A critical evaluation of the stress concept
· 2011 · cited 1,276x
- Record-setting algal bloom in Lake Erie caused by agricultural and meteorological trends consistent with expected future conditions
· 2013 · cited 1,265x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Architecture is a dangerous mixture of power and impotence.”
- “Find optimism in the inevitable.”
- “I live in a Victorian apartment building in London.”
- “The city is no longer. We can leave the theatre now.”
- “Bigness is no longer part of any urban tissue. (...) Its subtext is fuck context.”
- “Japan lives with drastic segregation between the sublime, the ugly, and the utterly without qualities. Dominance of the last 2 categories makes mere presence of the first stunning: when beauty 'happens', it is absolutely surprising.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to Rem Koolhaas, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Remment Lucas Koolhaas ( Dutch: [rɛm ˈkoːlɦaːs]; born 17 November 1944) 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. He is often cited as a representative of deconstructivism and is the author of Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan.
He is seen by some as one of the significant architectural thinkers and urbanists of his generation, by others as a self-important iconoclast. In 2000, Rem Koolhaas won the Pritzker Prize. In 2008, Time put him in their top 100 of The World's Most Influential People. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2014.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rem Koolhaas” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.