Rem Koolhaas - Ingelijste zeefdruk: Parc de la Vilette - 0MA (niet gesigneerd, zoals uitgegeven - Sold

Framed screen print by Rem Koolhaas. Architectural design for Parc de la Villette, marked OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture). Edition: 12/100. Dimensions including frame: H78 x W58cm. Dimensions representation: H77 x W57cm. The work is not signed by the artist.

Frames: Damages to frames are not described. If a work is framed behind glass and the glass is broken, this will be mentioned. Reflections may be visible in photos of framed works.

The work can also be picked up in 's-Gravenzande (near The Hague (Scheveningen), Rotterdam and Delft and 5 minutes from the beach). The term for collection, with advance payment, is very long. In other words, the buyer can pick up the work weeks or even months later and, if possible, combine it with a visit to one of the aforementioned cities or the beach. The work can also be sent by small courier (Swift).

Remment Lucas (Rem) Koolhaas (Rotterdam, November 17, 1944) is a Dutch architect, urban planner and essayist.

He is a professor of architecture and urban planning at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design. In 2000 he won the Pritzker Prize. In 2008, he was included in the Time 100 ranking of the 100 most influential people in the world. In 2014 he is curator of the Biennale di Venezia and a member of the American Philosophical Society. He is one of the most important architectural thinkers and urban planners of his generation. Often cited as a representative of deconstructivism, he is the best-selling author of Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan and S, M, L, XL: Small, Medium, Large, Extra-Large.

He is the son of writer and film critic Anton Koolhaas. His grandfather was the architect Dirk Roosenburg (1887-1962). Between 1952 and 1956, the Koolhaas family lived in Indonesia. In the Netherlands, Koolhaas attended the Netherlands Film Academy, where he specialized in screenwriting and formed the 1,2,3 Group in 1965 together with Jan de Bont, Frans Bromet, René Daalder and Samuel Meyering. Among other things, he wrote the screenplay for De Blanke Slavin (1969; together with Daalder). He also worked as a journalist at the Haagse Post. From 1968 to 1972 he studied architecture at the Architectural Association School (AA) in London. Koolhaas obtained a grant in 1972 to stay in the United States for a while. He studied at Cornell University and then became a visiting fellow at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York.

In 1975, Koolhaas founded the office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) with the architect Elia Zenghelis and their wives, the visual artists Madelon Vriesendorp and Zoe Zenghelis, which from then on would play an important role in the global architectural debate, albeit in the beginning mainly as a "paper architect". That is to say, OMA was initially known for lectures, competitions, discussions and publications, but not for buildings. In particular, the sensational, but not executed, competition design for the extension of the House of Representatives in The Hague in 1978 attracted worldwide attention.

influence

An influential book by Koolhaas is Delirious New York, a retroactive manifesto, which appeared in 1978 and in which Koolhaas attempted to expose the philosophy of Manhattan. A philosophy that has never been explicitly formulated, but is reflected in the various developments that have shaped Manhattan and New York; from Coney Island to Radio City Music Hall and from Central Park to Rockefeller Center. A painting by Vriesendorp is depicted on the cover of the book. It depicts the Empire State Building together with the Chrysler Building in bed after they make love; a reference to the eroticism and excitement of "Delirious New York".

The central theme of the book is The Culture of Congestion and its added value. Koolhaas would continue to be fascinated by places on the earth where extraordinary things happen due to the concentration of many people and human activities on a small piece of land, and the linking of two incompatible quantities, which will define Koolhaas's efforts to disadvantage, every problem, every negativity into their opposite.

Breakthrough

Netherlands Embassy, Berlin.

As a building architect, Koolhaas made his international breakthrough in 1992 with the construction of the Kunsthal in Rotterdam. Other designs realized in the Netherlands with which the agency profiled itself in those early years were the Nederlands Danstheater from 1987 in The Hague and the Rotterdam bus terminal (demolished in 2004). Multiple commissions for the city hall in The Hague (1986) and the Netherlands Architecture Institute in Rotterdam (1988) did not go to Koolhaas, despite laudatory jury reports and signature campaigns from the architectural world. Since the 1990s, the agency has mainly been active internationally.

In 1995 S, M, L, XL published an 'architecture novel' in which Koolhaas, together with graphic designer Bruce Mau, explained his works and thinking up to that point in an autobiographical/encyclopaedic style.

When the agency was on the verge of bankruptcy in 1995, cooperation was sought with the "De Weger" advisory group in Rotterdam, which was absorbed in 1997 into the Royal Haskoning group in Nijmegen. The collaboration ended in 2002.

In the late 1990s, Koolhaas decided to set up AMO, its own research institute that formalized a number of the firm's collaborations (particularly those with Harvard Design School in Massachusetts). AMO deals with themes such as identity, culture and organization and was involved in projects for Prada, the research into the relocation of Schiphol and the visual communication around the European Union.

As a result of lengthy research at Harvard University, The Harvard Design Guide to Shopping (about the rise of the shopping mall, the role of the escalator and the way in which 'shopping' has penetrated all layers of our culture) and The Great Leap Forward (history of China, particularly focusing on the ultra-rapid growth of urban agglomerations such as the Pearl River Delta).

Simultaneously with the major retrospective exhibition 'Content' (Berlin, Rotterdam 2003-2004), Content appeared, a magazine-style follow-up to S,M,L,XL.

To work

See the list of buildings by Rem Koolhaas for an oeuvre list.

Koolhaas' first projects were not realized until the 1980s. These were located in Dutch cities: Amsterdam (the IJplein in Amsterdam-Noord; urban plan and residential building); The Hague (building for the Nederlands Dans Theater); and Groningen (two residential buildings). The Kunsthal in Rotterdam and the Educatorium in Utrecht followed later. From the 1990s abroad followed and projects were carried out in France, the United States and Japan. In the Netherlands, the office was responsible for master plans in Utrecht (University Complex De Uithof), Groningen (Connection Canal Zone), Breda (Chassé site) and Almere Centrum, among others. Within the latter plan, the Blok 6 cinema was completed in 2006 after a design by OMA.

The Hague has a relatively large concentration of Koolhaas buildings. In addition to the aforementioned Danstheater, Koolhaas also designed the new construction of pop stage Paard van Troje in 2003 and in 2004 the Souterrain (a tram tunnel with two stations and an underground parking garage). Before the summer of 2010, a start was made on preparing building land for The Hague Central Station. A 93-metre-high office/residential building designed by OMA should have been built here. Due to disagreements between the municipality and the project developer, this prestigious project, which was approved by the city council of The Hague in the spring of 2010, was canceled a few months later.

In Beijing, Koolhaas designed the buildings of the CCTV and the adjacent TVCC in 2006 in collaboration with the German architect Ole Scheeren. The CCTV tower was built for the 2008 Olympics, but was not completed until 2012. It consists of two towers that are connected at the top and bottom. The floor area is 575,000 m². The TVCC building was severely damaged by a fireworks fire during the 2009 Chinese New Year celebrations (February 2, 2009) and was rebuilt.