An interview with Rem Koolhaas from World Policy Blog via World Landscape Architecture
The following interview is an excerpt from the Journal of International Affairs spring/summer 2012 issue, “The Future of the City,”
As cities grow in importance, so too does architecture. Architects are playing a leading role in thinking about the future of cities and building structures that will define urban life for hundreds of years to come. Rem Koolhaas is a leading urban theorist and a Pritzker Prize–winning architect who is engaged in building projects around the world. He co-founded OMA, the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, which is receiving international attention for its recent completion of an enigmatic new headquarters for China Central Television in Beijing. In an interview with Paul Fraioli of the Journal of International Affairs for its latest issue “The Future of the City,” Koolhaas discusses how the economic and cultural changes…
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Are cites really “machines of emancipation”? Ahh, Koolhaas…