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rem koolhaas: a conversation with us |
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The cyber-elite is wowed by its high-tech zeitgeist… Koolhaas' design links Seattle's challenges to those faced by other cities today. He casts the library at the vortex of the two most dramatic changes in modern life over the last decade: the erosion of the public realm and the explosion of new technologies. Karlsruhe is a city in denial. wired magazine interview: exploring the unmaterial world The beginning of the article focuses on OMA's plans for the new Schipol airport. There are several relevant issues in th development of this project and the new media center. Koolhaas's plans for the new division of his studio, AMO, are also discussed. AMO will focus on what he calls virtual architecture. This is the digital representation and visualization that many associate with the term, but rather a look at, "the designs or redesigns of human environments that don't resort to the tools of the construction industry." This mode of thinking is represented in his design of the Seattle public library. wired magazine interview: from bauhaus to koolhaas Fifty-two-year-old
Rem Koolhaas, a renowned Dutch architect and co author of S,M,L,XL,
the book whose weight everyone is still talking about (6 pounds, The
Monacelli Press), is only now making his American professional debut
- he's been commissioned to redesign MCA headquarters and its 420-acre
Universal Studios lot in Los Angeles. But Koolhaas's fame as an iconoclastic
visionary has been growing since the publication, in 1978, of Delirious
New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan (2 pounds, Oxford University
Press), which looks at urban life in this century as a fluid, largely
chaotic "culture of congestion" over which architects can assert virtually
no lasting control. And who would want to? Not Koolhaas. His love of
the urban condition is surpassed only by his mania for the unknown,
the untenable, the unmanageable, and the untried. The Pritzker Prize Association completed a guide to Rem Koolhaas that outlines his life and work. Color photos and drawings are included of his more influential work. The Document is available in PDF format. |
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