Rem Koolhaas

Architect

By: Adam Brillhart, John Anthal,

Sean Obrian, Kenny Modrow
Bio – Rem Koolhaas, Early Years
 Rem Koolhaas was born in Rotterdam,
The Netherlands. He spent four years in
Indonesia because of his father’s career.
He began to follow the path of his father
by becoming a writer. He wrote for
newspapers and eventually tried writing
movies.
Bio – Rem Koolhaas
 Rem’s love of writing was recognized by
the architectural community and he
attended the Architecture Association
School in London. He then came to the
United States for an internship. While
there he wrote a breakthrough in writing;
Delirious New York.
Bio – Rem Koolhaas
 Rem established himself as an architect
and formed the OMA or Office for
Metropolitan Architecture in London. Their
first major project was a housing plan for
Amsterdam. The OMA is still one of the
top modern Architecture firms in the world.
Bio - Rem Koolhaas
 Rem has produced only a few works but
each has been a remarkable piece. His
writings have received great acclaim and
in the year 2000 won the Pritzker
Architecture Prize.
 Works - Educatorium – Utrecht, Netherlands

The multifunction Educatorium is the centerpiece of a master plan made by

OMA (Koolhaas' firm) for the Utrecht University. Educatorium a made up word
for a factory for learning. In 1999, the building was awarded the biennial Rietveldprize.
 Works - Kunsthal

The compact building designed by the Rotterdam firm of OMA (Rem Koolhaas/Fumi
Hoshino) contains a large exhibition space (3300 square metres), distributed over
three halls and two galleries. A series of massive ramps and roads carve through
the art gallery space, creating the sense that the city is pouring through the structure.
 Works – Lille Grand Palais – Lille, France

The master plan for Euralille, France is the largest realized urban planning project
by Rem Koolhaas. The one-million-square-meter business, entertainment and
residential complex is grafted onto the small medieval town of Lille, north of Paris.
Scheduled for completion in 2004, the complex will include a train station, hotel
office buildings, shopping mall and restaurants.
 Works – Maison a Bordeaux – Bordeaux, France

Time Magazine named Rem Koolhaas's Maison à Bordeaux "Best Design of 1998."
The house was designed to accommodate a man who was confined to a wheel chair
after an automobile accident. Koolhaas describes the building as three houses
because it has three separate sections layered on top of one another.
 Works – Netherlands Dance Theater
– The Hague, Netherlands

The Netherlands Dance Theatre in The Hague was one of Rem Koolhaas's first
completed projects to receive widespread critical acclaim.
 Works – Netherlands Embassy – Berlin

The Dutch Embassy in Germany will perch on the banks of the river Spree in the
midst of conservative -- some say, drab -- architecture. The plan calls for a
compact building with 5000 square meters devoted to offices and 900 square meters
for living space. The roof of the building is treated as a separate facade. A large
roof-garden terminates a continuous, spiraling route through the structure.
 Works – Nexus Housing – Japan

The Nexus Housing project consists of 24 individual homes, each three stories
high, in a development in Fukuoka, Japan.
 Works – Seaterminal – Belgium

The Zeebrugge Ferry Terminal in Belgium is an important large-scale project

addressed by the OMA firm.
 Works – Seattle Public Library – Seattle

Rem Koolhaas' radical, deconstructivist design for the Seattle Public Library has been
praised... and questioned. Early critics said that Seattle was “bracing for a wild ride
with a man famous for straying outside the bounds of convention."
 Works – Seattle Public Library – Seattle

Rem Koolhaas' radical, deconstructivist design for the Seattle Public Library has been
praised... and questioned. Early critics said that Seattle was “bracing for a wild ride
with a man famous for straying outside the bounds of convention."
Awards
 Koolhaas was awarded the prestigious
Pritzker Architecture Prize for the year
2000
Works Cited
 All information, pictures, etc. quoted from
http://architecture.about.com/library/blkool
haas-educatorium.htm