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Rem Koolhaas
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The CCTV Headquarters in Beijing, an angular, looped skyscraper with a grid-patterned facade, towers over a busy street with cars and people on motorbikes in the foreground. Rem Koolhaas: Casa da Música (House of Music)
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Close-up of a palette held by a man. Mixing paint, painting, color mixing.
Artists, Painters, & Architects
Hagia Sophia. Istanbul, Turkey. Constantinople. Church of the Holy Wisdom. Church of the Divine Wisdom. Mosque.
Architecture: The Built World
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Rem Koolhaas: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Jacques Lucan (ed.), OMA-Rem Koolhaas: Architecture, 1970–1990, trans. by David Block (1991; originally published in French, 1990); Patrice Goulet (ed.), Six Projects (1990), and Lille (1990); Aurora Cuito (ed.), Rem Koolhaas/OMA (2002); Veronique Patteeuw (compiler and ed.), Considering Rem Koolhaas and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (2003).

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Article History

Type Description Contributor Date
Anniversary information added. Nov 13, 2025
First paragraph modernization. Apr 26, 2024
Added the Taipei Performing Arts Center. Aug 19, 2022
Article revised and updated. Apr 16, 2021
Modified link of Web site: The Pritzker Architecture Prize - Rem Koolhaas. Jun 05, 2020
Add new Web site: Praemium Imperiale - Rem Koolhaas. Jun 05, 2020
Add new Web site: Famous Architects - Rem Koolhaas. Jun 05, 2020
Add new Web site: Illinois Institute of Technology - Historical Architecture - Mies van der Rohe, Koolhaas, and Jahn. Dec 27, 2012
Add new Web site: Illinois Institute of Technology - Historical Architecture - Mies van der Rohe, Koolhaas, and Jahn. Dec 27, 2012
In 2009 the Koolhaas-designed Mandarin Oriental hotel (next to the CCTV headquarters in Beijing) suffered extensive fire damage. Feb 10, 2009
New bibliography added. Oct 03, 2008
Article revised and updated. Oct 03, 2008
Added new Web site: The Pritzker Architecture Prize - Rem Koolhaas. Oct 04, 2006
Added new Web site: The Pritzker Architecture Prize - Rem Koolhaas. Oct 04, 2006
New article added. May 18, 2006
New bibliography added. May 18, 2006
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