Remment Lucas Koolhaas 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.
14 Facts About Rem Koolhaas
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Rem Koolhaas is often cited as a representative of Deconstructivism and is the author of Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan.
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Rem Koolhaas is seen by some as one of the significant architectural thinkers and urbanists of his generation, by others as a self-important iconoclast.
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Rem Koolhaas was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2014.
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Remment Koolhaas was born on 17 November 1944 in Rotterdam, Netherlands, to Anton Koolhaas.
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Rem Koolhaas's maternal grandfather, Dirk Roosenburg, was a modernist architect who worked for Hendrik Petrus Berlage, before opening his own practice.
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Rem Koolhaas has a brother, Thomas, and a sister, Annabel.
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In 1969, Rem Koolhaas co-wrote The White Slave, a Dutch film noir, and later wrote an unproduced script for American soft-porn king Russ Meyer.
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Rem Koolhaas was a journalist in 1963 at age 19 for the Haagse Post before starting studies in architecture in 1968 at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, followed, in 1972, by further studies with Oswald Mathias Ungers at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, followed by studies at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York City.
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Rem Koolhaas first came to public and critical attention with OMA, the office he founded in 1975 together with architects Elia Zenghelis, Zoe Zenghelis and Madelon Vriesendorp in London.
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In 2005, Rem Koolhaas co-founded Volume Magazine together with Mark Wigley and Ole Bouman.
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Bored with being an architect and building things, Rem Koolhaas lets his fingertips graze important topics, genuine insights, and actual lives.
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Rem Koolhaas was previously married to Madelon Vriesendorp, an artist who is the mother of his two children, Charlie, a photographer, and Tomas, a filmmaker.
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Rem Koolhaas has known his current partner Petra Blaisse, an interior and landscape designer, since 1986.