Talk:Rem Koolhaas

message: While Rem Koolhas is undoubtably an adept and brilliant mind in the contemporary world of architecture. It should be considered that he is adept in two fields, both equally important. First, the creation of the physical acrhitecture and -perhaps more proliferously than any other- the creation of the fantastic.
"Random Meaning" is definitly a term in which he revels in and is quite good at using in his buildings, books and lectures alike. His books especially have brought many in the profession to dream or at least consider options outside the box, or even as mundane as a box.
But, lastly it should be noted that within the 'profession' (alive, dead, dying, or elsewhere) Rem Koolhas has a strong, and articulate following as well as equally strong amount which do not consider his architectural constructions to hold up to the complex descriptions, or view the examples or diagrams and randomness as a detractor rather than a additive element.
This particular article is a good introduction to Rem Koolhas, but the line between the old profession and the hyper-modern of Koolhas and others is also worth looking into, especially with an architect such as Koolhas.—The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.129.76.237 (talk • contribs) .
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i think i agree on the whole...so go for it! contribute! i enjoy koolhaas's attempts at re examining the position and relationship of the profession to society but have trouble articulating it. - Chwe 02:57, 7 Sep 2004 (UTC)
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message: I've tagged this article because, quite frankly, it's a pretentious piece of crap. I couldn't find a template that could convey that, so I added the two that I think best suit this article. Just take a look at this paragraph:
:Using a canny direction of observation and diagram, Koolhaas mobilizes the omnipotent forces of urbanism into unprecedented forms and connections organised along the lines of present day society. Shopping is examined for intellectual comfort whilst the unregulated taste and densification of Chinese cities is analysed according to "performance", a criterion involving variables with debatable credibility - density, newness, shape, size, money etc. Through his ruthlessly raw approach, Koolhaas hopes to extract the architect from the anxiety of a dead profession and resurrect a contemporary sublime however fleeting it may be.
--Osprey39 18:06, 13 August 2006 (UTC)
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message: Does mention of the prominent placement of Koolhaas' name on the new Netherlands 5 Euro coin belong in this article?  Not quite an award... Read here: --Theodore Kloba (talk) 16:05, 3 November 2008 (UTC)
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message: Is there another photo to use? I'd like to be to identify him at a conference, but the posted pic makes look like a dead ringer for Pharoah Meneptra or somebody similar recently unearthed in Egypt.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Kimwell (talk • contribs) 20:59, 28 March 2010 (UTC)
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message: I removed this section, initially because it seemed like a prime example of the "pretentious crap" noted above, but then I thought to google it:  The whole passage was lifted from this page:
http://arttattler.com/architecturedreamland.html 
"Delirious New York set the pace for Rem Koolhaas's career. His work emphatically embraces the contradictions of two disciplines (architecture and urban design) that have struggled to maintain their humanist ideals of material honesty, the human scale and carefully crafted meaning in a rapidly globalising world that espouses material economy, machine scale and random meaning. Instead, Koolhaas celebrates the "chance-like" nature of city life: "The City is an addictive machine from which there is no escape." As Koolhaas himself has acknowledged, this approach had already been evident in the Japanese Metabolist Movement in the 1960s and early 1970s."
The whole article needs to examined for plagiarism, but I'm too disgusted to read the rest of it.
People, you just can't do that kind of thing.  Christ, just stop!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.229.60.94 (talk) 13:15, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
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message: Said section is, to be blunt, a load of crap. Most of it is out of date (the CCTV building [or the facade, at least] was finished in June 2008), the organisation of the information given is atrocious, references and evidence are non-exisistent, and quite honestly, it ruins the whole page. Personally, the introduction need not to be so long; 2 lines or so, then current, updated information about the different OMAs around the globe. 
By the way, it would be "Offices", not "Office". 
The article seems to grow progressively worse as you read it till the bibliography. We need to start editing, people. The plagiarism issue seems to have ceased, at least.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 218.215.49.33 (talk) 02:11, 5 October 2010 (UTC)
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message: I'd like to know if he completed the academic studies that he started as there is no mention here of him gaining a tertiary award.  (I understand that the profession of architecture in Holland became 'regulated' after 1988.)
"He then was a journalist for the Haagse Post before starting studies, in 1968, in architecture at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London, followed, in 1972, by further studies at Cornell University in New York."
XArchitect (talk) 23:24, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
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message: His major work of the 90s reads as if it has been omitted/ deleted? Truth regards not who is the speaker, nor in what manner it is spoken, but that the thing be true; and she does not despise the jewel which she has rescued from the mud, but adds it to her former treasures 09:19, 25 October 2022 (UTC)
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