Koolhaas analyzes the "chance-like" nature of city life: "The City is an addictive machine from which there is no escape" "Rem fined the city as a collection of 'red hot spots'." ( Anna Klingmann). Koolhaas's book Delirious New York set the pace for his career. These schemes would attempt to put into practice many of the findings Koolhaas made in his book Delirious New York (1978), which was written while he was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York, directed by Peter Eisenman. Other early critically received (yet unbuilt) projects included the Parc de la Villette, Paris (1982) and the residence for the Prime Minister of Ireland (1979), as well as the Kunsthal in Rotterdam (1992). Each architect had to design a stage-like "frontage" to a Potemkin-type internal street the façades by Costantino Dardi, Frank Gehry and OMA were the only ones that did not employ Post-Modern architecture motifs or historical references. An early work which would mark their difference from the then dominant postmodern classicism of the late 1970s, was their contribution to the Venice Biennale of 1980, curated by Italian architect Paolo Portoghesi, titled "Presence of the Past". They were later joined by one of Koolhaas's students, Zaha Hadid – who would soon go on to achieve success in her own right. Koolhaas first came to public and critical attention with OMA (The Office for Metropolitan Architecture), the office he founded in 1975 together with architects Elia Zenghelis, Zoe Zenghelis and (Koolhaas's wife) Madelon Vriesendorp in London. Rem Koolhaas inspecting the Seattle Central Library model in 2005 He was a journalist in 1963 at age 19 for the Haagse Post before starting studies in architecture in 1968 at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, followed, in 1972, by further studies with Oswald Mathias Ungers at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, followed by studies at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York City. In 1969, Koolhaas co-wrote The White Slave, a Dutch film noir, and later wrote an unproduced script for American soft-porn king Russ Meyer. "It was a very important age for me," Koolhaas recalls "and I really lived as an Asian." When the war of independence was won, he was invited over to run a cultural programme for three years and the family moved to Jakarta in 1952. His father strongly supported the Indonesian cause for autonomy from the colonial Dutch in his writing. The family lived consecutively in Rotterdam (until 1946), Amsterdam (1946–1952), Jakarta (1952–1955), and Amsterdam (from 1955). His paternal cousin was the architect and urban planner Teun Koolhaas (1940–2007). Rem Koolhaas has a brother, Thomas, and a sister, Annabel. His maternal grandfather, Dirk Roosenburg (1887–1962), was a modernist architect who worked for Hendrik Petrus Berlage, before opening his own practice. Two documentary films by Bert Haanstra for which his father wrote the scenarios were nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Feature, one won a Golden Bear for Short Film. His father was a novelist, critic, and screenwriter. Remment Koolhaas was born on 17 November 1944 in Rotterdam, Netherlands, to Anton Koolhaas (1912–1992) and Selinde Pietertje Roosenburg (born 1920). He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2014. In 2008, Time put him in their top 100 of The World's Most Influential People. In 2000, Rem Koolhaas won the Pritzker Prize. He is seen by some as one of the significant architectural thinkers and urbanists of his generation, by others as a self-important iconoclast. He is often cited as a representative of Deconstructivism and is the author of Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan. Remment Lucas Koolhaas ( Dutch pronunciation: born 17 November 1944) is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Architectural Association School of Architecture, Cornell University
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