Rem Koolhaas — CANCELLED
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Friday, March 13th — Due to unforeseen circumstances, this event has unfortunately been cancelled.
Join us for a lecture featuring renowned Dutch architect and designer Rem Koolhaas, professor in practice of architecture and urban design at the GSD.
Registration is required. Register here.
The lecture will begin at 6:00 PM. Doors open for ticket holders with Harvard IDs at 5:30 PM and for non-Harvard ID holders at 5:45 PM. Seats will be filled on a first-come, first-served basis. Please note that tickets do not guarantee entry.
This event is supported by the Melissa Kaish and Jonathan Dorfman Makers Fund.
Rem Koolhaas, Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design, founded the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in 1975 together with Elia and Zoe Zenghelis and Madelon Vriesendorp. Having worked as a journalist and script writer before becoming an architect, Koolhaas graduated from the Architectural Association in London, and in 1978, published Delirious New York, a Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan. In 1995, his book S,M,L,XLsummarized the work of OMA and established connections between contemporary society and architecture. At this moment Rem Koolhaas is heading the work of OMA as well as AMO – the conceptual branch of OMA, a think tank focused on social, economic, and technological issues.
At Harvard, Rem Koolhaas conducts the Project on the City, a research program investigating changing urban conditions around the world. The projects include a study on China’s Pearl River Delta (published as Great Leap Forward), an analysis of the role of retail and consumption in the contemporary society (The Harvard Guide to Shopping), and studies on Rome, Lagos, Moscow and Beijing.
Recently, OMA has completed the Netherlands Embassy in Berlin, a campus center at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, the Prada Epicenter in Los Angeles and the Public Library in Seattle. The Seattle Library was chosen by TIME magazine as The Best Architecture for 2004 and was described by the New York Times as “a blazing chandelier to swing your dreams upon. If an American city can erect a civic project as brave as this one, the sun hasn’t set on the West.” (May 16, 2004)
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