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	Rem Koolhaas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rem Koolhaas (born November 17, 1944 in Rotterdam, Netherlands) is a Dutch architect, former journalist and screenwriter who studied architecture at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London.
		He is the principal of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, or OMA, and of its research-oriented counterpart AMO.
		With his Prada projects, Koolhaas has ventured into the realms of infusing architecture with the fleeting world of fashion and with celebrity-studded cachet: not unlike Garnier's Opera, the central space of Kolhaas' Beverly Hills Prada store is occupied by a massive central staircase, ostenibly displaying select wares, but mainly the shoppers themselves.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rem_Koolhaas (542 words)

	Faculty Profile
		OMA is engaged in a series of Museum projects and just realized the Guggenheim and Guggenheim Hermitage in Las Vegas, while the Whitney Museum in New York and Museum Ludwig in Cologne are being planned.
		OMA New York, led by partner Joshua Ramus, is the center of the firm’s American operations.
		The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) is a firm practicing contemporary architecture, urbanism and cultural analysis.
	www.gsd.harvard.edu /people/faculty/koolhaas/oma.html (502 words)

	The Seattle Public Library - Press Release - LIBRARY BOARD SELECTS OFFICE FOR METROPOLITAN ARCHITECTURE TO DESIGN THE ...
		OMA, which will partner locally with LMN Architects in Seattle, rose to the top from an original pool of 29 renowned local, national and international architect firms who sought the job.
		OMA currently has two projects under way in the United States: a new student center at the Illinois Institute of Technology and a 750,000 square foot headquarters building in Los Angeles.
		OMA recently won several international competitions, including the master plan of Song-Do New Town in Inchon, Korea, and the Haus um die Schenkung for the Anthroposophic Society in Berlin, Germany.
	www.spl.org /lfa/lfapr/central/526archselection.html (807 words)

	World History :: Encyclopedia Index -- Of (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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	Introduction to Design Theories
		The new "ecstasy about architecture" - comprising almost equal parts of constraint and elation, resignation and intoxication - is the essence of the ambivalent life in the metropolis, where the antinomies of modern utopianism are played out.
		Such an architecture not only creates the "sets" of everyday life, but it also defines its contents with all possible means and disciplines such as literature, psychology, etc. Through the magical arrangement of human activities on all possible levels, it writes a scenario for the scriptless Metropolitan extras.
		Metropolitan architecture is megalomaniac on a modest scale.
	www.ibiblio.org /istudio/r_koolhaas/reading_koolhaas.htm (3536 words)

	Royal Gold Medal 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Born in 1944 and educated at the Architectural Association in London from 1968-1972, Rem Koolhaas founded the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in London in 1975 with Elia and Zoe Zenghelis and Madelon Vriesendorp.
		OMA is currently engaged in its largest project ever: a new station for China Central Television (CCTV) in Beijing, to be completed in 2008 for the Olympic Games.
		In 2000, OMA was awarded the Pritzker Prize for Architecture and was the subject of a retrospective exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1995: Rem Koolhaas and the Place of Public Architecture.
	www.architecture.com /go/Architecture/Also/Awards_312.html (453 words)

	Faculty Profile
		The work of the office has won several international awards, including the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2000, and it was the subject of a retrospective exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York in 1995: Rem Koolhaas and the Place of Public Architecture.
		Koolhaas is the author of Mutations (2001), OMA 30: 30 Colours (1999), and OMA Rem Koolhaas Living, Vivre, Leben (1999).
		Considering Rem Koolhaas and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture and The Dutch Embassy in Berlin.
	www.gsd.harvard.edu /people/faculty/koolhaas (394 words)

	IIT News Bureau
		The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) is a Rotterdam and New York based firm practicing contemporary architecture, urbanism and cultural analysis.
		OMA Rotterdam—led by partners Rem Koolhaas, Ellen van Loon and Ole Scheeren—focuses attention on Europe and Asia.
		OMA employs a staff of 83 architects, industrial designers, graphic designers and administrators of multinational origin who work in a highly collaborative environment.
	webservices.iit.edu /iit_news/MTCC_oma_backgnd.asp (746 words)

	RIBA Classified - OMA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) is a leading international partnership practicing contemporary architecture, urbanism and cultural analysis.
		OMA's think tank AMO is a research group created to apply architectural thinking to purposes other than the realization of built projects.
		OMA offers an open, dynamic and international work environment in a leading architectural office.
	www.riba-jobs.com /Classified/Jobs/oma.htm (418 words)

	The State Hermitage Museum: Exhibitions
		The exhibition was organized by the Museum of Architecture, the State Hermitage, and Studio 44 (St Petersburg), with participation by the PRO ARTE Institute.
		The exhibition presents materials from the initial design work and preparatory research used in the architectural plans for restoring and reconstructing the Eastern Wing of the General Staff building, which was designed by Karl Rossi, built in 1820-1830, and transferred to the State Hermitage in 1989.
		A special section of the exhibition is dedicated to the investigations and proposals offered by OMA (The Office for Metropolitan Architecture), a Dutch architectural workshop headed by Rem Koolhaas which since 1975 has been active in the field of architecture, urban planning and socio-cultural analysis.
	www.hermitagemuseum.org /html_En/04/2005/hm4_2_118.html (600 words)

	Rem Koolhaas - Office for Metropolitan Architecture - Paard van Troje (Trojan Horse) :: arcspace.com
		Rem Koolhaas - Office for Metropolitan Architecture - Paard van Troje (Trojan Horse) :: arcspace.com
		After a renovation and extension by OMA the performance centre, Paard van Troje (Trojan Horse) opened to the public on July 3, 2003.
		The inventive collaboration between Koolhaas and designer Bruce Mau is a graphic overture that weaves together architectural projects, photos and sketches, diary excerpts, personal travelogues, fairy tales, and fables, as well as critical essays on contemporary architecture and society.
	www.arcspace.com /architects/koolhaas/paard_van_troje (605 words)

	York - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		York is also known for its chocolate factories, and is home to the University of York.
		York is renowned for its history, which is preserved in its architecture.
		The city was founded nearly 2,000 years ago, and for much of the intervening period has been the main city in the North of England.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /york.htm (1956 words)

	Dallas Center for the Performing Arts Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Koolhaas and OMA are responsible for The Netherlands Dance Theatre in The Hague, the Kunsthal Rotterdam, the Lille Grand Palais, the Guggenheim Las Vegas and the Seattle Central Library.
		OMA also has several important projects that are nearing completion, including the Porto Symphony Hall, Portugal and the Illinois Institute of Technology Campus Center.
		OMA is currently engaged in the design of its largest project ever - the 6 million square foot headquarters for Chinese Central Television (CCTV) in Beijing.
	www.dallasperformingarts.org /building_the_center.cfm (1152 words)

	Office for Metropolitan Architecture: Seattle Public Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		OMA's design for the Seattle Public Library--one of the firm's most heavily anticipated projects to date--begins with a radical rethinking of the very nature of the library.
		If the library exists today as a threatened sanctuary, it has been done in by its own stubborn reliance on one kind of literacy and its consequent blindness to other emerging forms that increasingly dominate our culture, especially the huge efficiencies and pleasures of visual intelligence.
		Rather than merely package this traditional institution in a new way, OMA has completely reinvented it, transforming it wholeheartedly into a site able to aggressively orchestrate the coexistence of all available technologies for collecting, condensing, distributing, reading, and manipulating information.
	www.artbook.com /8495951630.html (180 words)

	A Daily Dose of Architecture: Magazine "Event" of the Moment
		Archinect reports on the launch of VOLUME, a project by Archis, AMO (the research and design portion of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, aka Rem Koolhaas's office), and CLAB (The Columbia Laboratory for Architectural Broadcasting).
		Architecture needs new modes of operation, converging the creation, the mediation and the appreciation of space.
		I'm of the opinion that the more architectural discourse the better (my favorite tagline is Loud Paper's "dedicated to increasing the volume of architectural discourse"), so VOLUME will be a welcome addition.
	archidose.blogspot.com /2005/02/magazine-event-of-moment.html (420 words)

	Architecture,Design (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		I graduated in architecture & I decided to developed it in my journal.Architecture and designing are extol my brainpower & gratification myself.I`ve continue these in my mind,soal& heart my bilief is persons should be realist in their behavior.
		Born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1950, Zaha Hadid studied architecture at the Architectural Association in London from 1972 and was awarded the Diploma Prize in 1977.
		She then became a partner of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, taught at the AA with OMA collaborators Rem Koolhaas and Elia Zenghelis, and later led her own studio at the AA until 1987.
	vahid.blogdrive.com (715 words)

	Columbia News ::: New Magazine at Columbia Thinking Inside the Box
		The Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) has strengthened its reputation as a proving ground for fresh ideas with the launch of a new publication, Volume, a collaboration between existing magazine Archis and Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas' firm, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture.
		The bimonthly publication will feature content from the Columbia Laboratory for Architectural Broadcasting, a research unit within GSAPP, and the research wing of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, known as AMO (the reverse initials of Koolhaas' firm).
		The theme will be how to move "beyond magazine, office and school." Eleven GSAPP faculty members, including Adjunct Associate Professor of Architecture Karl Chu, Associate Professor Michael Bell and Assistant Professor Yolande Daniels, have written short articles in the inaugural issue, each discussing their views on how the field of architecture can change and grow.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/news/05/04/volume.html (619 words)

	Elsewhere: Tall Buildings Exhibition in 2004 at the Queens, New York facility of the Museum of Modern Art (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Although some have maintained that the terrorist attacks have lessened the popularity, and safety, of tall buildings because of their high and prominent visibility, others have noted that many cities around the world have recently forged ahead with very major skyscrapers, many of which are very interesting and notable.
		In the first iteration, planes are generated from the extension of vectors and the triangulation of the surfaces; this triangulation permits the development of both a surface order for cladding and a trussed structure for vertical and lateral support.
		Mystery and personality are too often missing in architecture and this is certainly one of the most spectacular projects of the end of the 20th Century, even if it has not yet been built, a fate that also befell Louis I.
	www.thecityreview.com /tall1.html (3094 words)

	Dallas Theater Center - Let Yourself Go
		The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), with offices in Rotterdam, Netherlands and New York City, is the design architect for the Charles and Dee Wyly Theatre.
		OMA is responsible for the design of such world-class facilities as the Rotterdam Kunsthal in the Netherlands and the Guggenheim Museum in Las Vegas, Nev., in the United States.
		OMA founder and world-renowned architect Rem Koolhaas and Principal-in-Charge Joshua Ramus are leading the design of the Dallas theater project.
	www.dallastheatercenter.org /page.aspx?doc_id=1265 (534 words)

	LACMA: Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The adoption of the early design concepts submitted by Koolhaas and his firm, Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) of Rotterdam, is the next major step in LACMA’s five year initiative of strategic planning, collection building, new and enhanced public programming, institutional reorganization, and establishing a strong financial foundation for the future.
		The Koolhaas design concept and models, as well as those of the other four architectural firms in the final selection process, will be exhibited in Transforming LACMA: Museum at the Crossroads, in the Masterpiece in Focus Gallery on the plaza level of the Ahmanson Building beginning December 16, 2001.
		OMA’s sister organization, AMO, is an architectural think tank and consulting firm founded by Koolhaas to research the relation between society and the built environment.
	www.lacma.org /info/press/archfinal2.htm (1606 words)

	Southern California Institute of Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		For the Cultural Complex and Administrative Headquarters for Montr¨¦al, an open international competition, we created a metropolitan amalgam composed of a dense, mixed-use program representing various political and cultural entities for the city and the region of Qu¨¦bec.
		Although the massing is simple and block-like-an extrusion of the urban grid-the porous skin developed for the project subverts the massive volume and disintegrates at the edges, de-materializing into thin air and allowing for transparency, both symbolic and literal, into regional government and cultural activities.
		The architectural concept for the Visitors' Center is a pavilion in the trees, whereby two parallel slabs are raised above the ground to form floor and roof, allowing trees to pass through uninterrupted and to minimize the building's footprint to encourage ecological continuity.
	www.sciarc.edu /v5/gallery/faculty.php?project_id=40 (697 words)

	Akademie zum dritten Jahrtausend - Referenten
		Rem Koolhaas founded the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) in 1975 together with Elia and Zoe Zenghelis and Madelon Vriesendorp.
		The Office for Metropolitan Architecture is a Rotterdam-based firm practicing contemporary architecture, urbanism and cultural analysis.
		Rem Koolhaas is heading the work of OMA and AMO, the conceptual branch of OMA focused on social, economical and technological developments and exploring territories beyond architectural and urban concerns.
	www.akademie3000.de /content/referenten/koolhaas.htm (194 words)

	ArchitectureWeek - Design - Seattle Public Library - 2005.0420
		Architect Joshua Ramus, partner at the Rem Koolhaas-led Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) replies: "Although the library is sculptural, it is not in any way an attempt to make a form.
		The path OMA had originally proposed would have provided a clearer route, but "the [library] board didn't think it was a valuable use of resources," Ramus explains.
		The Seattle Public Library, by Rem Koolhaas, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), and LMN Architects, as seen from Fourth and Madison.
	www.architectureweek.com /2005/0420/design_1-1.html (284 words)

	village voice > books > by James Westcott (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Content's mania for full dis- closure (the humility beneath the bravado) means that sometimes all the thinking is done for you, and the speedy approach persistently turns slapdash: Many of the graphics don't do justice to fascinating demographic data.
		The building, to be completed in 2008, is bigger and more ambitious than anything OMA could do in the West: A loop instead of a skyscraper, it implies flow and interconnectedness rather than hierarchy.
		The project also pushes OMA into the ethically uncomfortable territory where it is always happiest: a commission from a state-run media organ in a country that has severely curtailed free speech and plenty of labor camps.
	www.villagevoice.com /books/0415,westcott,52622,10.html (324 words)

	Theatre Projects Consultants - publications
		After his education at the Architectural Association School in London, he studied at Cornell University and became a visiting Fellow at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York.
		Koolhaas and OMA are responsible for The Netherlands Dance Theatre in The Hague; the Kunsthal Rotterdam; the Lille Grand Palais; and the Guggenheim Las Vegas.
		Koolhaas and OMA are currently providing design services to Casa da Musica in Porto, Portugal; the Seattle Public Library; and three retail "epicenters" for Italian fashion house Prada.
	www.tpcworld.com /publications.asp?id=69&level2=37§ion=5 (1140 words)

	Archinect : News : Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) Chosen for Annenberg IST Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		OMA will lead the project and design the building.
		OMA, led by Pritzker Prize-winning architect, Rem Koolhaas, has designed a number of critically acclaimed buildings.
		Peter Schroder, professor of computer science and chairman of the Annenberg Center building committee noted, "OMAs approach to the design of a building is as exacting and thorough as our approach to science and engineering.
	www.archinect.com /news/article.php?id=18884_0_24_0_M (537 words)

	Office for Metropolitan Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		AMO the think tank linked to the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) and supervised by Rem Koolhaas and Reinier de Graaf questions in `Expansion and Neglect` whether every museum in the world needs to be modernized.
		While OMA remains dedicated to the realization of buildings and master plans, its subsidiary AMO is a think tank that operates in areas beyond the boundaries of architecture and urbanism - including sociology, technology, media and politics.
		Building on OMA competition designs for museums all over the world, like the Whitney Museum (USA) and Tate Modern (UK), AMO showcases the thinking process it is undertaking for The Hermitage museum in St. Petersburg.
	www.oma.nl /printable.php?id=1916&image= (498 words)

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