Editing Rem Koolhaas (section)

==Early life and career==
Remment Koolhaas was born on 17 November 1944 in [[Rotterdam]], Netherlands, to [[Anton Koolhaas]] (1912–1992) and Selinde Pietertje Roosenburg (born 1920). His father was a novelist, critic, and screenwriter. His maternal grandfather, [[Dirk Roosenburg]] (1887–1962), was a [[Modern architecture|modernist architect]] who worked for [[Hendrik Petrus Berlage]], before opening his own practice. Rem Koolhaas has a brother, Thomas, and a sister, Annabel. His paternal cousin was the architect and urban planner [[Teun Koolhaas]] (1940–2007). The family lived consecutively in Rotterdam (until 1946), [[Amsterdam]] (1946–1952), [[Jakarta]] (1952–1955), and Amsterdam (from 1955).<ref>{{cite web
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  | publisher = Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis
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  | access-date = 14 May 2008 |language=nl}}</ref>

His father strongly supported the Indonesian cause for autonomy from the colonial Dutch in his writing. When the war of independence was won, he was invited over to run a cultural programme for three years and the family moved to Jakarta in 1952. "It was a very important age for me," Koolhaas recalls "and I really lived as an Asian."<ref>{{Cite news
  |last=Adams
  |first=Tim
  |url=http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1803857,00.html
  |title=Metropolis Now
  |work=The Observer, Guardian Unlimited
  |date=25 June 2006
|location=London}}</ref>

In 1969, Koolhaas co-wrote ''The White Slave'', a Dutch film noir, and later wrote an unproduced script for American soft-porn king [[Russ Meyer]].<ref>{{cite web
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  |first=Lynn
  |url=http://www.lynnbecker.com/repeat/OedipusRem/koolhaasbio.htm
  |title=Oedipus Rem.
  |work=Repeat: Writings on Architecture
  |date=10 October 2007}}</ref>

He was a journalist in 1963 at age 19 for the ''[[Haagse Post]]''<ref>{{cite web |url=https://stichtingconstant.nl/system/files/20070904_koolhaas_constant-architecturaltheory.eu_.pdf |title=Koolhaas, Constant and Dutch Culture in the 1960s |last=Lootsma |first=Bart |date=4 September 2007 |website=Architecturaltheory.eu }}</ref>  before starting studies in architecture in 1968 at the [[Architectural Association School of Architecture]] in London, followed, in 1972, by further studies with [[Oswald Mathias Ungers]] at [[Cornell University]] in [[Ithaca, New York|Ithaca]], New York, followed by studies at the [[Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies]] in New York City.[[File:Rem Koolhaas SCL.jpg|thumb|Rem Koolhaas inspecting the [[Seattle Central Library]] model in 2005]]

Koolhaas first came to public and critical attention with [[Office for Metropolitan Architecture|OMA]] (The Office for Metropolitan Architecture), the office he founded in 1975 together with architects [[Elia Zenghelis]], Zoe Zenghelis and (Koolhaas's wife) [[Madelon Vriesendorp]] in London. They were later joined by one of Koolhaas's students, [[Zaha Hadid]] – who would soon go on to achieve success in her own right. An early work which would mark their difference from the then dominant [[postmodern]] classicism of the late 1970s, was their contribution to the [[Venice Biennale]] of 1980, curated by Italian architect [[Paolo Portoghesi]], titled "Presence of the Past". Each architect had to design a stage-like "frontage" to a [[Potemkin village|Potemkin]]-type internal street; the façades by {{Interlanguage link|Costantino Dardi|it}}, [[Frank Gehry]] and [[Office for Metropolitan Architecture|OMA]] were the only ones that did not employ [[Post-Modern]] architecture motifs or historical references.
[[File:Union-europea segun rem-koolhaas.svg|thumb|Proposal for a [[barcode]] for the [[European Union]], 2002.]]
Other early critically received (yet unbuilt) projects included the [[Parc de la Villette]], Paris (1982) and the residence for the [[Taoiseach|Prime Minister of Ireland]] (1979), as well as the [[Kunsthal]] in Rotterdam (1992). These schemes would attempt to put into practice many of the findings Koolhaas made in his book ''Delirious New York'' (1978),<ref>Koolhaas, Rem (1978) ''Delirious New York: A retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan'', Academy Editions, London; republished, The Monacelli Press, 1994, {{ISBN|978-1-885254-00-9}}</ref> which was written while he was a visiting scholar at the [[Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies]] in New York, directed by [[Peter Eisenman]].<ref>{{cite web|first=Valentina|last=Ciuffi|title=Rem Koolhaas is stating 'the end' of his career, says Peter Eisenman|date=9 June 2014|url=https://www.dezeen.com/2014/06/09/rem-koolhaas-at-the-end-of-career-says-peter-eisenman/|website=dezeen.com|access-date=7 August 2019}}</ref>