Rem Koolhaas

Is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urban planner and professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. In 1975 he founded the Office of Metropolitan Architecture (OMA). He later created a twin studio, the Architecture Media Organisation (AMO), a think tank concentrating on developing multidisciplinary projects, cultural analysis and research into the changes taking place in the media and technology as well as the growing importance of the virtual world. His published works include Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan (1978); S, M, L, XL (1995); Mutations (2001); and Content (2003). He also co-founded Volume magazine. His most recent architectural projects include the Fondazione Prada, Milan (2015); the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2015); the Seattle Public Library (2004); the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (2013); and the Central China Television (CCTV) headquarters in Beijing (2012). In the year 2000, he received the Pritzker Prize.