Rem Koolhaas
Title
: Professor at Harvard University
Website
: Office for Metropolitan Architecture
Lecture Infomation
: Lecture given on December 8, 2004.
Bio:
Rem Koolhas founded the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in 1975 with Elia and Zoe Zenghelis and Madelon Vriesendorp. He is also a professor at Harvard University where he conducts the Project on the City, a research program investigating changing urban conditions around the world.
Rem Koolhaas is heading the work of OMA as well as AMO - the conceptual branch of OMA, a think tank focused on social, economic, and technological issues. Recently, OMA has completed the Netherlands Embassy in Berlin, a campus center at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, the Public Library in Seattle, and the Prada Epicenter in Los Angeles. Currently, the OMA is engaged in its largest project ever: a new 575,000 m^2 headquarters for China Central Televition (CCTV) in Beijing, to be completed in time for the 2008 Olympic Games.
The work of Rem Koolhas and the OMA has won several international awards, including the Pritzker Architecture Prize (2000) and the RIBA Gold Medal (2004).
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