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REM KOOLHAAS 1944- …
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Rem Koolhaas 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. Koolhaas studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Koolhaas is the founding partner of OMA, and of its research-oriented counterpart AMO based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
Koolhaas ' s book Delirious New York set the pace for his career. Koolhaas celebrates the " chance-like " nature of city life: " The City is an addictive machine from which there is no escape " Rem Koolhaas.
A key aspect of architecture that Koolhaas interrogates is the " Program ": with the rise of modernism in the 20th century the " Program " became the key theme of architectural design.
The notion of the program involves " an act to edit function and human activities " as the pretext of architectural design.
The notion was first questioned in Delirious New York, in his analysis of high-rise architecture in Manhattan. An early design method derived from such thinking was " crossprogramming ", introducing unexpected functions in room programmes, such as running tracks in skyscrapers.
He defined the city as a collection of“ red hot spots.”
BEYOND ARCHITECTURE | SUMMER 2015 | ISSUE 1