Rem Koolhaas (born november 17 1944 in Rotterdam, Netherlands) is a Dutch architect, former journalist and screenwriter who studied architecture at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. He is the principal of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, or OMA, & of its locate-oriented counterpart AMO. He is too "Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design" at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design.

Perchance better known for his books than his buildings, he has authored many germinal works inside architectural theory, including Delirious New York, and S,M,L,XL, a collaboration with a graphic designer Bruce Mau. Koolhaas' function definitely embraces the contradictions of a discipline that struggles to maintaaround its humanistic ideals of poop honesty, the human being shell & carefully crafted meaning in a quickly globalising globe that espouses poop economy, machine shell & random meaning. CCTV HQ, Beijing, China]] Utilizing a clever counsel of observation & diagram, Koolhaas mobilizes a almighty forces of urbanism into unprecedented forms & modems organised along the lines of present day society. Concidering is examined for rational comfort when a unregulated taste & compaction of Chinese cities is analysed based on data from "performance", the critera involving variables by owning debatable credibility - density, newness, shape, size, money etc. Across his ruthlessly raw approach, Koolhaas hopes to extract the designer from either the anxiety of a dead profession & resurrect a coeval sublime nevertheless fleeting it may be Casa da Música, Porto, Portugal Prizes
Inside 2000, he won a Pritzker Architecture Prize. Architecture & Fashion
By having his Prada projects, Koolhaas has ventured into a realms of infusing architecture using a momentary globe of fashion & by using celebrity-studded cachet: non unlike Garnier's Opera, a central space of Kolhaas' Beverly Hills Prada store is occupied by a massive central stairway, ostenibly displaying take wares, however primarily a shoppers themselves. At a opening person for the flagship store, Kolhawhen might not develop been when desired per Hollywood click corps as Paris Hilton or Nicole Richie, but was easy recognized per connoisseur. Prada, Beverly Hills, Opening July 2004

Quotes
''"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. But the generic city, the general urban condition, is happening everywhere, and just the fact that it occurs in such enormous quantities must mean that it's habitable. Architecture can't do anything that the culture doesn't. We all complain that we are confronted by urban environments that are completely similar. We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living." —interview inside Wired Magazine 4.07, July 1996 [http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/4.07/koolhaas.html]

Asked whenever there is a certain contribution he aspires to produce: "It's very simple and it has nothing to do with identifiable goals. It is to keep thinking about what architecture can be, in whatever form. That is an answer, isn't it? I think that S,M,L,XL has one beautiful ambiguity: it used the past to build a future and is very adamant about giving notice that this is not the end. That's how it felt to me, anyway. That is in itself evidence of a kind of discomfort with achievement measured in terms of identifiable entities, and an announcement that continuity of thinking in whatever form, around whatever subject, is the real ambition."'' —interview inside Index Magazine, 2000 [http://www.indexmagazine.com/interviews/rem_koolhaas.shtml]

List of projects
Koolhaas's projects include: [http://www.kunsthal.nl/gebouw.html Kunsthal], (Rotterdam, 1993) Euralille (Lille, 1988) Netherlands Dance Theater (The Hague, 1988) Educatorium, (Utrecht, 1993-1997) Netherlands Embassy (Berlin, 2003) Guggenheim Museum, (Las Vegas, 2002) Nexus Housing (Fukuoka, Japan) Retail project for Prada stores (New York 2003, Los Angeles 2004) McCormick Tribune Campus Center, (IIT Chicago, Illinois, 1997-2003) Seattle Central Library (2004) Casa da Música (Oporto, 2005) CCTV HQ, Beijing (Construction Commencing 2004)