Rem Koolhaas

Rem Koolhaas is an architect and co-founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). Before studying architecture, he worked as a journalist and screenwriter. His best-known publications include Delirious New York, a retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan (1978), and S,M,L,XL (1995), which summarizes OMA’s work. He received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2000 and the Praemium Imperiale in 2003. In 2014, he curated the Venice Architecture Biennale and published Elements of Architecture in connection with his exhibition there. Notable OMA projects include the Kunsthal in Rotterdam, Seattle Central Library, and the CCTV Headquarters in Beijing.