Rem Koolhaas, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Rem Koolhaas

Dutch architect (b.1944)

Date of Birth: 17-Nov-1944

Place of Birth: Rotterdam, South Holland, Netherlands

Profession: writer, architect, urban planner

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

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Remment Lucas Koolhaas (Dutch pronunciation: [r?m ko?l?a?s]; born 17 November 1944) 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.
He is often cited as a representative of deconstructivism and is the author of ‘Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan’.
Koolhaas studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
Koolhaas is the founding partner of OMA, and of its research-oriented counterpart AMO based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
In 2005, he co-founded Volume Magazine together with Mark Wigley and Ole Bouman. He is widely regarded as one of the most important architectural thinkers and urbanists of his generation.
In 2000, Rem Koolhaas won the Pritzker Prize.
In 2008, Time put him in their top 100 of The World's Most Influential People.