rem koolhaas

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ROTTERDAM, 1944

Rem Koolhaas founded OMA in 1975 together with Elia and Zoe Zenghelis and Madelon Vriesendorp. OMA is a leading international partnership practicing architecture, urbanism, and cultural analysis. Koolhaas 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.

ABC

2019

OPEN

2015

— CCTV television station and headquarters, Beijing, China. 2002–ongoing. Ph. Iwan Baan

— Rem Koolhaas

Koolhaas has won several international awards including the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2000, the Praemium Imperiale in 2003, the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 2010 Venice Biennale, the RIBA Charles Jencks Award in 2012, and the Johannes Vermeer Prijs in 2013.

— Seattle Central Library Seattle (USA), 2004. Ph. Philippe Ruault

Koolhaas is a professor at Harvard University where he conducts the Project on the City. In 2014, he directed the 14th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, entitled Fundamentals.

— Timmerhuis Rotterdam (NL), 2015. Ph. Ossip van Duivenbode.

— Fondazione Prada, Milano 2017. Ph. Bas Princen