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Remment Koolhaas, best known as Rem Koolhaas was born in November 17, 1944 in Rotterdam. He is a dutch architect, urbanist, architectural theorist and "Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design" at Graduate School Design at Harvard University actually.

Rem Koolhaas studied architecture at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London in 1968, followed, in 1972, by further studies at Cornell University in New York. Koolhaas is the principal of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) and of its research-oriented counterpart AMO. In 2005, he co-founded Volume Magazine together with Mark Wigley and Ole Bouman.

Rem came to public and critical attention with OMA, the office he founded together with architects Elia Zenghelis, Zoe Zenghelis (Koolhaas's Wife), Madelon Vriesendorp in London in 1975, with their contribution to the Venice Biennale 1980, they marked their difference from the then dominant postmodern classicism of the late 1970s.

Some of Koolhaas most recent works include what he considered the office's largest project to date, the 575,000 m2 China Central Television Headquarters CCTV and Television Cultural Center TVCC, constructed in Beijing in 2008. Other projects in development include the Shenzhen Stock Exchange and a lush residential tower and residential masterplan in Singapore.

Some of Koolhaas's projects include:

• Guggenheim Hermitage Museum (Las Vegas, 1980 – 2002)
• Retail design for Prada stores (New York: 2003, Los Angeles: 2004)
• CCTV HQ (Beijing, in construction)
• Casa da Musica (Porto, 2001 – 2005)
• Seoul National University Museum of Art (Seoul, 2003 – 2005)
• Milstein Hall, Cornell, currently in the planning phase
• Copenhagen Brewery Site competition winner for a new Danish Architecture Center
• Bicentennial Tower (Mexico City, in construction)

Some of the numerous awards that Rem Koolhaas:

• 2007 Doctoris Honiris Causa by the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
• 2004 RIBA Gold Medal
• 2003 The Praemiun Imperiale
• 2000 Pritzker Architecture Prize

Casa da Musica, Porto, Portugal

Seoul National University Museum of Art, South Korea