Título: Rem Koolhaas
Seção: Project on the city
Background: Remment Lucas "Rem" Koolhaas (Dutch pronunciation: [rem ko:lha:s]; born 17 November 1944) is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Koolhaas studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Koolhaas is the founding partner of OMA, and of its research-oriented counterpart AMO based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In 2005, he co-founded Volume Magazine together with Mark Wigley and Ole Bouman.

Conteúdo: Koolhaas's next landmark publications were a product of his position as professor at Harvard University, in the Design school's "Project on the City"; firstly the 720-page Mutations, followed by The Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping (2002) and The Great Leap Forward (2002). All three books involved Koolhaas's students analysing what others would regard as "non-cities", sprawling conglomerates such as Lagos in Nigeria, west Africa, which the authors argue are highly functional despite a lack of infrastructure. The authors also examine the influence of shopping habits and the recent rapid growth of cities in China. Critics of the books have criticised Koolhaas for being cynical - as if Western capitalism and globalization demolish all cultural identity - highlighted in the notion expounded in the books that "In the end, there will be little else for us to do but shop". However, such cynicism can alternatively be read as a "realism" about the transformation of cultural life, where airports and even museums (due to finance problems) rely just as much on operating gift shops.  When it comes to transforming these observations into practice, Koolhaas mobilizes what he regards as the omnipotent forces of urbanism into unique design forms and connections organised along the lines of present-day society. Koolhaas continuously incorporates his observations of the contemporary city within his design activities: calling such a condition the 'culture of congestion'. Again, shopping i

user: What was his role in the project on the city?

assistant: Koolhaas's next landmark publications were a product of his position as professor at Harvard University,

user: Did he include his own research in the books?

assistant: All three books involved Koolhaas's students

user: What was the importance of the project?

assistant: authors also examine the influence of shopping habits and the recent rapid growth of cities in China.

user: Was there a proposal tied to the project?

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user: Were there any awards tied to the project on the city?

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user: Did anything happen as a result of project on the city?

assistant: Critics of the books have criticised Koolhaas for being cynical

user: Did Koolhaas suffer as a result of the criticism?

assistant: Koolhaas hopes to extract the architect from the anxiety of a dead profession and resurrect a contemporary interpretation of the sublime,

user: Did Koolhaus work on anything else during the time he worked on project on the city?

assistant: 544-page magazine-style book designed by &&& Creative and published by Koolhaas,

user: What was the magazine-style book about?

assistant: gives an overview of the last decade of OMA projects