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Rem Koolhaas
Architecture informed by writing, urban observation and programmatic invention.
Background & practice
Koolhaas co-founded OMA in 1975 with Madelon Vriesendorp, Elia Zenghelis and Zoe Zenghelis. His career connects architectural design with writing and research into metropolitan life. He received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2000.
How to read the work
Projects such as the Kunsthal and Lille masterplan investigate how different activities and scales can coexist, using the complexity of the city as design material.
Professional recognition
2000 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate.
OMA projects have different partner leads. The Interlace is not automatically assigned to Koolhaas because he co-founded the office.
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