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    Rem Koolhaas is a renowned Dutch architect, theorist, and educator born in 1944. He studied architecture in London and New York and is the founding partner of OMA, an influential architecture firm based in Rotterdam. Koolhaas is known for interrogating modernist concepts like "program" in architecture and questioning the maxim that "form follows function." His book Delirious New York analyzed Manhattan's high-rise development and influenced his career by celebrating the chaotic nature of cities.

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    Rem Koolhaas is a renowned Dutch architect, theorist, and educator born in 1944. He studied architecture in London and New York and is the founding partner of OMA, an influential architecture firm based in Rotterdam. Koolhaas is known for interrogating modernist concepts like "program" in architecture and questioning the maxim that "form follows function." His book Delirious New York analyzed Manhattan's high-rise development and influenced his career by celebrating the chaotic nature of cities.

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    Rem Koolhaas is a renowned Dutch architect, theorist, and educator born in 1944. He studied architecture in London and New York and is the founding partner of OMA, an influential architecture firm based in Rotterdam. Koolhaas is known for interrogating modernist concepts like "program" in architecture and questioning the maxim that "form follows function." His book Delirious New York analyzed Manhattan's high-rise development and influenced his career by celebrating the chaotic nature of cities.

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    Born 17 November 1944 (age 74)

    Is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and Professor in Practice


    of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of
    Rem Koolhaas Design at Harvard University. 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 based in Rotterdam, the
    Netherlands. In 2005, he co-founded Volume Magazine together with Mark
    Wigley and Ole Bouman.
    Theoretical position
    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 notion of the Program involves "an act to edit function
    and human activities" as the pretext of architectural design: epitomised in the
    maxim Form follows function, first popularised by architect Louis Sullivan at the
    beginning of the 20th century. The notion was first questioned in Delirious New
    York, in his analysis of high-rise architecture in Manhattan. An early design
    method derived from such thinking was "cross-programming", introducing
    unexpected functions in room programmes, such as running tracks in
    skyscrapers. More recently, Koolhaas unsuccessfully proposed the inclusion of
    hospital units for the homeless into the Seattle Public Library project (2003)

    Delirious New York

    Koolhaas's book Delirious New York set the pace for his career. 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). As Koolhaas himself has acknowledged, this approach had already been
    evident in the Japanese Metabolist Movement in the 1960s and early 1970s.
    Seattle Central Library
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    "People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything
    and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has
    nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming”.

    “The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so


    much effort that our office almost went bankrupt.”

    “What is now called 'green architecture' is an opportunistic caricature of a much


    deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has
    been engaged with for many years. It was one of the first professions that was
    Phrases deeply concerned with these issues and that had an intellectual response to them”.

    “Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.”

    “One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive


    compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity”.

    “Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is
    already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm
    definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times.”

    “It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of
    many contradictory forces.”

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