20.3.11

Rem Koolhaas and Post-Modernism









Rem Koolhaas or Remment Lucas Koolhaas is a Dutch architect who is the founder partner of OMA, architecture company that currently based in Rotterdam, Natherlands. As his father was a novelist, critic, and screenwriter, Rem Koolhaas became a journalist and the film maker at the early of his career life. Koolhaas first studied scriptwriting and produced 'The White Slave' in 1969 with his partner and then was a journalist for the Haagse Post before started to studied in the area of Architecture in London. In 1975, Koolhaas founded the office together with his partners and later joined by one of his students, Zaha Hadid, famous female architect who achieved Pritzker Prize award. Here, in the early work of his career life, started the inspiration of his work from post modernism architecture and produce architecture in his own style. He was getting the inspiration from the great architect in modernism world, where “Post-Modernism” are 'white' and the 'grey' which different from the very extreme concept of Modernism where there's either black or white. However, Rem Koolhaas used the theory of this and apply to his work that stands out from other architecture also much more complex and magnificent in our world of modernism today.

Bordeaux house by Rem Koolhaas

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