N. 53 OMA / Rem Koolhaas (Digital Archive)
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In 1992, El Croquis published the first monograph devoted to Rem Koolhaas with the collaboration of Alejandro Zaera as guest editor.
Essays
Finding Freedoms: Conversations with Rem Koolhaas
Alejandro Zaera
Notes for a Topographic Survey
Alejandro Zaera
Works
Two Patio Villas
Rotterdam, Netherlands. 1984/1988
Netherlands Architecture Institute
Rotterdam, Netherlands. 1988.
Bibliotheque de France
Paris, France. 1989.
Sea Trade Center
Zeebrugge, Belgium. 1989
NEXUS WORLD
Residential Complex
Fukuoka, Japan. 1991.
KUNSTHAL
Temporary Art Centre
Rotterdam, Netherlands. 1987 /1992
ZKM
Centre for Art and Media Technology
Karlsruhe, Germany. 1989
VILLA DALL'AVA
Single-family House
Saint Cloud, Paris, France. 1985/1991
CENTRE INTERNATIONAL D'AFFAIRES-CONGREXPO
Urban Design and Convention Center
Lille, France. 1988/1991
AGADIR
Hotel and Convention Center
Agadir, Morocco. 1990
OMA / Rem Koolhaas
Rem Koolhaas was born in Rotterdam in 1944. After having lived in Indonesia between 1952 and 1956, he settled in Amsterdam as a journalist for the Haagse Post and as a film screenplay writer, before leaving for London to study architecture at the Architectural Association School. Two theoretical projects come from this period: « The Berlin wall as architecture» (1970) and «Exodus, or the voluntary prisoners of architecture» (1972).
A scholarship obtained in 1972 allowed him to stay in the United States, where, fascinated by New York, he started to analyze the impact of metropolitan culture on architecture and published «Delirious New York, a retrospective manifesto for Manhattan».
At this stage, Rem Koolhaas wanted to progress from theory to practical application and decided to return to Europe. In London in 1975, he created, with Elia and Zoe Zenghelis and Madelon Vriesendorp, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), whose objectives were the definition of new types of relations -theoretical as well as practica!- between architecture and the contemporary cultural situation. Since 1978, severa! orders in Holland, such as the extension of The Hague's Parliament, led him to open an agency in Rotterdam which was to henceforth centralize OMA's activities. At the same time, he created the Groszstadt Foundation, an independent structure controlling the «cultural» activities of the agency, such as exhibitions and publications.
