Rem Koolhaas
Dutch · 1944–
Architect, theorist, and founder of OMA, whose provocative writings and buildings—including CCTV Headquarters and Seattle Central Library—interrogate modernity and urbanism.
Wikipedia ↗“The city is an addictive machine from which there is no escape.”
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Delirious New York, 1978 ↗ (1978)
“The Grid's two-dimensional discipline creates undreamt-of freedom for three-dimensional anarchy. The Grid defines a new balance between control and de-control in which the city can be at the same time ordered and fluid, a metropolis of rigid chaos.”
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Delirious New York, 1978 ↗ (1978)
“The beauty of my profession lies in its randomness: the chance to study anything.”
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S,M,L,XL, 1995 ↗ (1995)