Architecture

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YOU SHOULD KNOW THE LATEST PROJECT OF


REM KOOLHAAS...


what?? dont u know him ??

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Rem Koolhaas



Rem Koolhaas (né le 17 novembre 1944 à Rotterdam, Pays-Bas) est un architecte et urbaniste néerlandais. Ancien journaliste, il étudia l’architecture à Architectural Association de Londres. Il est connu pour son ouvrage S,M,L,XL, associé au graphiste Bruce Mau.

En 2000, le Prix Pritzker lui a été décerné.

Son agence OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture, soit le bureau pour une architecture métropolitaine) fondée en 1975 et basée à Rotterdam, se fait connaître à travers la réalisation de projets architecturaux, de concepts urbains et de nombreuses recherches analytiques culturelles.



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Biographie

Avant de construire, Rem Koolhaas s'est distingué par une œuvre théorique originale, devenue culte depuis : New York Délire (Delirious New York), publié en 1978 reconstitue la construction de Manhattan comme une opération cohérente dont il fixe a posteriori le programme.

Au début des années 1980, les propositions architecturales de OMA sont remarquées à l'occasion de concours tels que celui du Parc de La Villette (1982), ZKM (1989), la Très Grande Bibliothèque de France (1989), ou encore les Deux Bibliothèques pour l'Université de Jussieu (1993). En parallèle, l'agence réalise plusieurs projets atypiques et ambitieux, répondant notamment aux commandes privées : Villa dall'Ava à Saint-Cloud (1991), la maison à Bordeaux (1998, équerre d'argent), ou à plus large échelle, avec les deux îlots d'habitation à Fukuoka au Japon appelés Nexus Housing (1991), ainsi que le Kunsthal de Rotterdam (1992).

En 1994, OMA contribue au projet d'urbanisme Euralille (70 ha) rassemblant, autour de la gare Lille Europe, un ensemble de bureaux et de centres sociaux, auxquels Jean Nouvel, Christian de Portzamparc ou Shinohara participent à travers la réalisation de bâtiments individuels.

Suite à la réalisation de nombreux projets en France et aux Pays-Bas durant les années 90, OMA s'investit dans les problématiques propres à l'urbanisme et aux infrastructures caractéristiques de l'Asie, procédant notamment à d'importantes études urbaines étalées sur une période de dix ans - Hyperbuilding in Bangkok Thailand, Hanoi New Town, Vietnam and Song Do New Town et New Seoul International City en Corée.

Récemment, l'activité de OMA se distingue par la construction du New City Center à Almere (Pays-Bas), le Concert Hall de 1850 places à Porto (Portugal, concours de 2004), le Cordoba Convention Center (Espagne), ou encore le Centre pour le Zeche Zollverein à Essen (Allemagne).

Aux États-Unis, l'Office s'inscrit dans le paysage urbain avec notamment la réalisation de la bibliothèque centrale de Seattle ; le Prada Epicenter Store de Los Angeles, et récemment, celui de New York (2001) ; mais aussi, le IIT Campus Center (2003) à Chicago. OMA s'investit également dans de nombreuses réalisations muséales : The Whitney Museum de New York, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, ou encore deux Guggenheim Museum à Las Vegas (2001).

En Asie, l'immeuble The H-Project cultural center ainsi que le SNU, le musée de l'université nationale de Séoul, viennent d'être achevés. En France, Rem Koolhaas participe sans le remporter à un grand concours d'urbanisme : le réaménagement des Halles de Paris (2004).

Aujourd'hui, l'Office for Metroplitan Architecture est investi dans l'un de ses projets les plus notoires la réalisation du Siège de CCN, la centrale de télévision de Beijing, répartie sur une superficie de 575 000 m², qui devrait être achevée en 2008 pour la célébration des Jeux Olympiques.







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Liste des principaux projets

* Euralille (Lille, 1988-1995)
* Netherlands Dance Theater (La Haye, 1988)
* Villa dall'Ava à Saint-Cloud France (1991)
* Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin 1990 Photo
* Educatorium, (Utrecht, 1993-1997) Photo
* Nexus Housing (Fukuoka, Japon)
* Guggenheim Museum, (Las Vegas, 2002)
* McCormick Tribune Campus Center, (IIT Chicago, 1997-2003)
* Ambassade des Pays-Bas (Berlin, 2003)
* Retail design for Prada stores (worldwide) (New York 2003, Los Angeles 2004) Photo
* Bibliothèque centrale de Seattle (2004)
* Casa da Música, Porto (2005) (prévue pour l'année de la culture Porto 2001) Dessins et photos
* CCTV HQ, Beijing (en cours de réalisation)

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REM KOOLHAAS

Remment Koolhaas, IPA: ['rɛm 'kɔːlhas], (born November 17, 1944 in Rotterdam) is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and "Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design" at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, USA. Koolhaas first studied scriptwriting at the Dutch Film Academy, and was then a journalist for the Haagse Post before starting studies, in 1968, in architecture at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, followed, in 1972, by further studies at Cornell University in New York. Koolhaas is the principal of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, or OMA, and of its research-oriented counterpart AMO, nowadays based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. In 2005 he co-founded Volume Magazine together with Mark Wigley and Ole Bouman.

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Early architectural career

Koolhaas first came to public and critical attention with OMA (The Office for Metropolitan Architecture), the office he founded in 1975 together with architects Elia Zenghelis, Zoe Zenghelis and (Koolhaas's wife) Madelon Vriesendorp in London. They were later joined by one of Koolhaas's students, Zaha Hadid - who would soon go on to achieve success in her own right. An early work which would mark their difference from the then dominant postmodern classicism of the late 1970s, was their contribution to the Venice Biennale of 1980, curated by Italian architect Paolo Portoghesi, titled "Presence of the Past". Each architect had to design a stage-like "frontage" to a Potemkin-type internal street; and the OMA scheme was the only modernist scheme among them.

Other early critically-received (yet unbuilt) projects included the Parc de la Villette, Paris (1982) and the residence for the President of Ireland (1981). The first large project by OMA to be built was the Kunsthal in Rotterdam (1992). These schemes would attempt to put into practice many of the findings Koolhaas made in his book Delirious New York (1978),[1] which was written while he was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies in New York, directed by Peter Eisenman.

Theoretical position

Delirious New York

Delirious New York set the pace for Koolhaas's career. His work emphatically embraces the contradictions of two disciplines (architecture and urban design) that have struggled to maintain their humanist ideals of material honesty, the human scale and carefully crafted meaning in a rapidly globalising world that espouses material economy, machine scale and random meaning. Instead, Koolhaas celebrates the "chance-like" nature of city life: "The City is an addictive machine from which there is no escape." As Koolhaas himself has acknowledged, this approach had already been evident in the Japanese Metabolist Movement in the 1960s and early 1970s.
Seattle Central Library, designed by OMA
Seattle Central Library, designed by OMA

Another key aspect of architecture Koolhaas interrogates is the "Program": with the rise of modernism in the 20th century the "Program" became the key theme of architectural design. The notion of the Program involves "an act to edit function and human activities" as the pretext of architectural design: epitomised in the maxim Form follows function, first popularised by architect Louis Sullivan at the beginning of the 20th century. The notion was first questioned in Delirious New York, in his analysis of high-rise architecture in Manhattan. An early design method derived from such thinking was "cross-programming", introducing unexpected functions in room programmes, such as running tracks in skyscrapers. More recently, Koolhaas (unsuccessfully) proposed the inclusion of hospital units for the homeless into the Seattle public Library project (2003).
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S,M,L,XL

The next landmark publication by Koolhaas was S,M,L,XL, together with Bruce Mau and Hans Werlemann (1995),[2]a 1376-page tome combining essays, manifestos, diaries, fiction, travelogues, and meditations on the contemporary city. The layout of the huge book transformed architectural publishing, and such books - full-colour graphics and dense texts - have since become common. Ostensibly, S,M,L,XL gives a record of the actual implementation of "Manhattanism" throughout the various (mostly un-)realized projects and texts OMA had generated up to that time. The part lexicon-type layout spawned a number of concepts that have become common in later architectural theory, in particular "Bigness": 'old' architectural principles (composition, scale, proportion, detail) no longer apply when a building acquires Bigness. This was demonstrated in OMA's scheme for the development of "Euralille" (1990-94), a new centre for the city of Lille in France, a city returned to prominence by its position on the new rail route from Paris to London via the Channel Tunnel. OMA sited a train station, two centres for commerce and trade, an urban park, and 'Congrexpo' (a contemporary Grand Palais with a large concert hall, three auditoria and an exhibition space). In another essay in the book, titled "The Generic City", Koolhaas declares that progress, identity, architecture, the city and the street are things of the past: “Relief … it’s over. That is the story of the city. The city is no longer. We can leave the theatre now...” For Koolhaas architecture and the city are said to be superseded by Bigness.



Many Americans mispronounce Koolhaas as "Cool House", due to his profession.



Awards

* 2004 RIBA Gold Medal
* 2003 awarded the Praemium Imperiale
* 2000 Pritzker Architecture Prize
* 2007 (February 2) Doctor Honoris Causa by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.



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List of projects
Casa da Música, Porto, Portugal
Casa da Música, Porto, Portugal
Netherlands Embassy in Berlin, Germany, opened in 2004. Koolhaas's design won the Architekturpreis Berlin in 2003 and the Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture in 2005.
Netherlands Embassy in Berlin, Germany, opened in 2004. Koolhaas's design won the Architekturpreis Berlin in 2003 and the Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture in 2005.



Koolhaas's projects include:

* Torre Bicentenario (Bicentennial Tower), Mexico City, 2007-2010[11]
* Copenhagen Brewery Site competition winner, for a new Danish Architecture Center[12]
* Córdoba International Congress Center (Córdoba, Spain)
* Milstein Hall, Cornell, currently in the planning phase
* Seoul National University Museum of Art (Seoul, 2003-2005) [1]
* Casa da Música (Porto, 2001–2005)
* Seattle Central Library (Seattle, 2004)
* CCTV HQ (Beijing, Construction Commencing 2004)
* Retail design for Prada stores (New York: 2003, Los Angeles: 2004)
* McCormick Tribune Campus Center, IIT (Chicago, 1997-2003)
* Netherlands Embassy Berlin (2003)
* Guggenheim Hermitage Museum (Las Vegas, 1980, 2002?)
* Second Stage Theatre (New York City, 1999)
* Maison à Bordeaux (Bordeaux, 1998)
* Educatorium (Utrecht, 1993–1997)
* Kunsthal (Rotterdam, 1993)
* Villa dall’Ava (Saint-Cloud, 1991)
* Nexus Housing (Fukuoka, 1991)
* Euralille (Lille, 1988)
* Netherlands Dance Theater (The Hague, 1988)


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Rem Koolhaas/OMA and Porsche Design project in Dubai





LATEST PROJECT - BY REM KOOLHAAS..

IN THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, RAS AL-KHAIMAH EMIRATE.


Rem Koolhaas Designs a Death Star for the UAE
Rem Koolhaas Designs a Death Star for the UAE | The Underwire from Wired.com



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By the bank of the Moscow River...
Foster + Partners creates the world's largest single building, the Crystal Island.



The scheme is conceived as a self-contained city within a city, with a range of cultural, exhibition and performance facilities, approximately 3000 hotel rooms and 900 apartments, as well as offices and shops, sports complex, an international school and more.

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His Geometry looks nice as a plan!!
yet im not convinced with the end of the building as an eiffel tower end

the shape looks more to a natural overlapping than a distributing functional building.

the link is nice, thnx piccolomondo