Rem Koolhaas

Details

Nationality

Dutch

Classifications

Holder

Individual

Source of authority

ObservationReason

Subject

Human centred

Mode of transmission

Text drawing

Knowledge type

Propositional

Epistemic cluster

Western philosophical

Notes

[DRAFT] Dutch architect, theorist and founder of OMA whose Delirious New York (1978) read the metropolis as a 'culture of congestion', and whose S,M,L,XL (1995, with Bruce Mau) and essays on Bigness, the Generic City and Junkspace made him the central provocateur of late-twentieth-century urban thought; Pritzker laureate (2000).

Connections

• authored S,M,L,XL
• collaborated with Bruce Mau
• proposed The Generic City
• proposed Junkspace
• proposed Bigness
• authored Exodus, or the Voluntary Prisoners of Architecture
• authored Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan
• extends The Global City
• influenced Postcritical / Projective architecture

Referenced by

• Superstudio influenced
• Archizoom Associati influenced

Sources

1. Rem Koolhaas. Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan. Oxford University Press, 1978.
2. Rem Koolhaas and Bruce Mau. S,M,L,XL. Monacelli Press, 1995.
3. in Crysler, Cairns & Heynen (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory, SAGE, 2012 — export p. 3 of 20
4. in Crysler, Cairns & Heynen (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory, SAGE, 2012 — export p. 15 of 34
5. in Crysler, Cairns & Heynen (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory, SAGE, 2012 — export p. 6 of 22