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Rem Koolhaas
Remment Lucas 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. He is often cited as a representative of deconstructivism and is the author of Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan.
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culture · Dutch architect (born 1944) · architect · urban planner · writer · theorist · author · professor · journalist · screenwriter · also Rem Koolhaas, Remment Lucas Koolhaas, Remment Koolhaas, Koolhaas
Born 17 November 1944 · Q232364
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2026· 2 entries
The New York Times: Rem Koolhaas
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2022· 1 entry
Awarded Rolf Schock Prize in Visual Arts (2022).
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2020· 3 entries
The New Yorker: Rem Koolhaas’s Journey to the Countryside
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Architectural Digest: Architect Rem Koolhaas Explains Why the Countryside Is the Next Frontier
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Yahoo: Architect Rem Koolhaas’s Vision for the Future Is a Little Bit Country
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2018· 1 entry
ArchDaily: Rem Koolhaas: The Latest Architecture and News
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2014· 2 entries
Architectural Digest: Rem Koolhaas returns to the basics with his latest publication, Elements of Architecture
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KCRW: The Godzilla of Architecture? Rem Koolhaas Builds His Own Delirious New York — in Rotterdam
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2013· 1 entry
Awarded Johannes Vermeer Award (2013).
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2012· 1 entry
Awarded RIBA Charles Jencks Award (2012).
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2011· 1 entry
Published “Stress revisited: A critical evaluation of the stress concept” in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews — cited 1,280 times.
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2010· 2 entries
Published “Coping styles and behavioural flexibility: towards underlying mechanisms” in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences — cited 531 times.
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Published “Neuroendocrinology of coping styles: Towards understanding the biology of individual variation” in Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology — cited 741 times.
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2008· 1 entry
Time put him in their top 100 of The World's Most Influential People
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2005· 3 entries
Awarded European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (2005).
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Published “The Darwinian concept of stress: benefits of allostasis and costs of allostatic load and the trade-offs in health and disease” in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews — cited 846 times.
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Rem Koolhaas co-founded Volume Magazine together with Mark Wigley and Ole Bouman
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2004· 2 entries
Won Royal Gold Medal (2004).
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Awarded Wolfert van Borselenpenning (2004).
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2003· 2 entries
Awarded Praemium Imperiale (2003).
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Content, a 544-page magazine-style book designed by &&& Creative and published by Koolhaas, gives an overview of the last decade of OMA projects including his designs for the Prada shops, the Seattle Public Library, a pl
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2002· 1 entry
Awarded Oeuvre Awards BKVB (2002).
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2001· 1 entry
Or 2002 Koolhaas proposed a flag for the European Union dubbed, the, "barcode flag"
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2000· 2 entries
Awarded Pritzker Architecture Prize (2000).
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Rem Koolhaas won the Pritzker Prize
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1999· 1 entry
Published “Coping styles in animals: current status in behavior and stress-physiology” in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews — cited 2,409 times.
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1998· 1 entry
Awarded Prix de l'Équerre d'Argent (1998).
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1986· 1 entry
Awarded Rotterdam-Maaskant Prize (1986).
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1984· 1 entry
“Noting that architecture can no longer keep up with the world: "The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding. Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.”
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1975· 1 entry
Together with architects Elia Zenghelis, Zoe Zenghelis and Madelon Vriesendorp in London
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1972· 1 entry
Received a Commonwealth Fund (Harkness) Fellowship to study 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 Cit
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1969· 1 entry
Koolhaas co-wrote The White Slave, a Dutch film noir, and later wrote an unproduced script for American soft-porn king Russ Meyer
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1963· 1 entry
At age 19, he was a journalist for the Haagse Post before starting studies in architecture in 1968 at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London
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1944· 1 entry
Born 1944-11-17.
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