thought-provoking architectural production of OMA, writing and research are central aspects of his practice. Among many books and collaborations with magazines, Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan (1978) and S, M, L, XL (1995) stand out as cult pieces on modern architecture and society. Koolhaas has won several international awards including the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2000 and the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 2010 Venice Biennale. He is a professor at Harvard University where he conducts the Project on the City -- a hub for urban research of developing parts of the world. How do you think about architecture as the space of experience? In our work there is an underlying feeling that the subject should not spend all the attention in architecture but that there are other oppressing concerns that deserve attention. The subject can be inspired by serenity and regularity. Our architecture aims to deliberately reduce first degree excitement. It is about not having properties, as in Robert Musil's Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften ( The Man Without Qualities , 1930) -- a very important book for me. How do you engage with other disciplines? I am deeply influenced by art. I read about it, I talk about it. I look and I listen. There are more literal forms of collaboration, such as having artists in the office to critique the things we are doing. We have worked with Carsten Holler to make things uglier and we have worked with Thomas Demand to make