Rem Koolhaas / OMA

Remment Koolhaas known as Rem (Rotterdam, 17 November 1944) is a Dutch architect, urban planner and essayist, among the best known on the international scene.

Among the most influential and discussed theorists of contemporary architecture, some of his books have become real bestsellers. In 1975 he founded with Madelon Vriesendorp and Elia and Zoe Zenghelis theOffice for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), of which Zaha Hadid would also become a partner in 1977. In addition to designing buildings around the world with OMA, Koolhaas works in non-architectural disciplines – including politics, publishing, media, fashion and sociology – through the think tank AMO, founded in 1999, which represents OMA's research counterpart.

In 1978 he wrote Delirious New York, a text that immediately brought him fame on the international scene. In this book, by telling the story of New York and its buildings, he tries to explain the reason why a city that was almost completely unplanned has shaped our contemporary world in a way that the architects of the Modern Movement failed to do with their metropolitan utopias. In the book he states
«New York has succeeded in producing the culture of congestion and, moreover, has succeeded in expressing the technology of the fantastic, an ideal that perhaps has little to do with the rules of architectural composition but which, in fact, manages to produce buildings that are certainly no less interesting than those that emerge from the academies, old or new, of our schools of architecture»
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