Rotterdam, Netherlands, 1944
A Dutch architect, Rem Koolhaas, following a brief period as a journalist for the Haagse Post in Amsterdam and as a screenwriter, studied architecture in London at the Architectural Association. In 1972, thanks to a scholarship, he moved to the USA where he continued his studies with Ungers at the Cronell and began teaching at the UCLA and Columbia.Whilst in New York, Koolhaas wrote the book “Delirious New York” (published in 1978) and was responsible for the design of the exhibition “The Sparkling Metropolis” at the Guggenheim (1978): both projects looked at the symbiotic relationship between continually changing metropolitan culture and the single work of architecture.In 1975 he founded OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture) – together with Elia and Zoe Zenghelis and Madelson Vriesendorp – and began producing architecture which also made a number of references to the constructivist avant-garde.OMA, made up of architects, landscapes architects, urban designers and engineers, also takes on large scale projects such as the development of the new Seoul Airport City or the masterplanning of the city of Hanoi.The work of the office has won several international awards, including the 2000 Pritzker architecture Prize, and was the subject of a retrospective exhibition held at the MOMA in New York in 1995: "Rem Koolhaas and the Place of Public Architecture".
Studio
OMA - Office for Metropolitan Architecture
Heer Bokelweg 149, 3032 AD Rotterdam, The Netherlands