Saturday, February 13, 2010

10.310 REM KOOLHAAS

Rem Koolhaas interview De Rotterdam from Paul Dijkhuijsen on Vimeo.

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  1. REM IS SPECIALLY HAPPY. TEN YEARS AFTER STARTING THE DESIGN, THE ROTTERDAM HOTEL IS GOING TO BE BUILT. HE THINKS THE DESIGN IS STILL FRESH. ITS A LARGE BULDING, 150M HIGH, THE LARGEST TO BE BUILT IN THE NETHERLANDS TODAY. A LARGE STRUCTURE MADE BY THE ADDITION OF SMALLER PARTS (AS MOST OF THE CITY OF ROTTERDAM). THE DESIGN GROWS ITS CHARACTER ...

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  2. DUTCH ARCHITECT, ARCHITECTURAL THEORIST, AND URBANIST. KOOLHAAS STUDIED AT THE NETHERLANDS FILM AND TELEVISION ACADEMY IN AMSTERDAM, AT THE AA IN LONDON AND AT CORNELL UNIVERSITY IN ITHACA, NEW YORK. KOOLHAAS IS THE PRINCIPAL OF THE OFFICE FOR METROPOLITAN ARCHITECTURE, OMA, AND OF ITS RESEARCH-ORIENTED COUNTERPART AMO (ARCHITECTUUR METROPOLITAANSE OFFICIE), CURRENTLY BASED IN ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS. IN 2005 HE CO-FOUNDED VOLUME MAGAZINE TOGETHER WITH MARK WIGLEY AND OLE BOUMAN. IN 2000 REM KOOLHAAS WON THE PRITZKER PRIZE. IN 2008 TIME PUT HIM IN THEIR TOP 100 OF THE WORLD'S MOST INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE. AN EARLY WORK OF THE LATE 1970S, WAS THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO THE VENICE BIENNALE OF 1980, TITLED "PRESENCE OF THE PAST. THE OMA SCHEME WAS THE ONLY MODERNIST SCHEME AMONG THEM.

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