Rem Koolhaas

Courtesy of OMA / Photography by Fred Ernst

MR REM KOOLHAAS
Founding partner of OMA

About the speaker

Rem Koolhaas (Rotterdam, 1944) founded Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in 1975 together with Elia and Zoe Zenghelis and Madelon Vriesendorp. He graduated from the Architectural Association in London and in 1978 published Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan. In 1995, his book S,M,L,XL summarised the work of OMA in "a novel about architecture".

He heads the work of both OMA and AMO, the research branch of OMA, operating in areas beyond the realm of architecture such as media, politics, renewable energy and fashion. Koolhaas is a professor at Harvard University where he conducts the Project on the City.

In 2014, he was the director of the 14th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, entitled "Fundamentals". 

About the lecture: A Journey through Urbanism, Architecture and his Works

At his lecture, Mr Rem Koolhaas shared his views on urbanism, architecture, his current preoccupations and projects.