BIO

Dutch architect and publicist, winner of the Pritzker Prize (2000) and the Mies van der Rohe Prize (2005).

He spent part of his childhood in Indonesia. After returning to the Netherlands, he worked as a screenwriter and journalist. From 1968 to 1972 he studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London. Koolhaas’s writings won him fame in the field of architecture before he completed a single building. Since 1975 he has run the OMA (Office for Metropolitan Architecture) in Rotterdam. He is a professor at Harvard University.

He is one of the most influential contemporary architects, both through his architecture and through the theories he proclaims. Koolhaas has designed a number of residences, cultural buildings and an “educatorium” a name alluding to a factory of learning, a shared facility at Utrecht University, among many other projects and planning commissions. In a major competition, Koolhaas was selected to design the new Campus Center at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago, one of the first new structures on the historic campus designed by Mies Van der Rohe. He designed and build the Netherlands Dance Theater in The Hague.