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the godfather of contem porary architecture. Equal parts theorist and design er, over his
40-year career Koolhaas has revolution ized the way architects look at program and
interaction of space, and today continues to design buildings that push the capabilities
of architecture to new places.
Remment   Koolhaas was born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. At the age of eight,
Koolhaas ‘ father was giveh a position running a cultural program in Jakarta, Indonesia
and subsequently moved his family to Asia. The family returned to Amsterdam three
years later, where Koolhaas would later pursue filmmaking (a phase he believes still
impacts his work today), until enrolling at the Architectural As sociation School of
Architecture in London in 1968.
Following continued studies at Cornell University and the Institute for Architecture and
Urban Studies in New York City, Koolhaas returned to London to open his firm, OMA,
alongside his wife Madelon   Vriesendorp and Elia and Zoe Zenghelis.
TERRENCE ZHANG WINS ARCAID AWARD FOR WORLD’S BEST BUILDING
IMAGE 2017
Terrence Zhang has been named the winner of the 2017 Arcaid Images Architectural
Photographer of the Year Award for his “striking image” of the Swim- ming Pool at the
New Campus of Tianjin Univers t , in China, designed Atelier Li Xinggang . Announces
on the final day of the World Architecture Festival (WAF) in Berlin, the image was
lauded for its ability to capture the shafts of sunlight entering throuh- the clerestory and
interacting with the water.