Koolhaas, Rem (1934– )

Dutch architect, a postmodernist. His work includes the National Dance Theatre, The Hague, Netherlands, (1987); the Kunsthal art gallery in Rotterdam, Netherlands, (1992); Eurolille (railway station, conference, and exhibition centre), Lille, France (1994); the Guggenheim-Hermitage Museum (2001) in Las Vegas, Nevada; and the McCormick Tribune Campus Center (2003) at the Illinois Institute of Technology. In 2000 he won the prestigious Pritzker Architecture Prize.

Koolhaas was born in Amsterdam and studied in the UK at the Architectural Association in London, where he was influenced by the Archigram group. He became professor at Harvard University in the USA and set up a practice in Rotterdam, the Office of Metropolitan Architecture. He has published Delirious New York (1978), and S, M, L, XL (1995).