Short Biography-

Rem Koolhaas was born in Rotterdam in 1944.

He lived in Indonesia from 1952 to 1956, spending the

rest of his youth in Amsterdam. He started his career

as a scriptwriter and as a journalist for a Dutch

newspaper. From 1968 to 1973 he attended the

Architectural Association School in London.

Together with Madelon Vriesendorp

and Elia and Zoe Zenghelis, Rem Koolhaas

founded the Office for Metropolitan Architecture

(OMA) in London in 1975. Since 1995

Rem Koolhaas has been a professor at Harvard

University, where he is leading a series of research projects

for the "Harvard Project on the City", studying various

issues affecting the urban condition.

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