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Rem Koolhaas looks for different concepts rather than figures or shapes. Although he feels attracted to the chaos theory, he rejects deconstructivism arguing that “it is a trivial analogy between the so-called irregular geometry and our crumbled world”. He also pretends that “the architectural space results from an accumulation of material built down to be one whole; the actual space is additive, layered and light’. Koolhaas regrets the created distance between the mythical part of the architect and the real situation in which he expresses his perpetual technical modifications and ever less verifiable speeds.
Passionate about the city and its urban development projects, Koolhaas collaborated in 1994 on the Euralille project, a tertiary whole of 70 hectares of offices in the very heart of the metropolis Lille.
As a result of the effect of numerous projects both in France and the Netherlands in the nineties, the architects devotes himself to the typical problems of urban development and infrastructure in Asia, in particular by doing large scale urban development studies in Thailand, Vietnam en Korea.
Thanks to the avant-garde developments in the area of combining project, plan and technique with other disciplines, he succeeds in getting the best out of every project, Universal Headquarters, Los Angeles (1996), Guggenheim Hermitage Museum, Las Vegas (2000), Prada Store in Los Angeles, and New-York (2001), but also for recent projects or projects about to be ended now, such as : the new Dutch embassy in Berlin, the concert hall Casa da Musica in Porto and the Seattle public library.
Nowadays, the firm of Koolhaas completely dedicates herself to one of her most famous projects in China : the creation of the office of CCTV, the Beijing television centre covering a 575.000 m² area. It should be ready by 2008 for the celebration of the Olympics.
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