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“Behind the scenes” window into Rem’s world, it is more “inside the brain” says Oliver Wainwright

Netherlands Architecture News - Aug 13, 2016 - 09:38   14106 views

“Behind the scenes” window into Rem’s world, it is more “inside the brain” says Oliver Wainwright

[......] Pitched as a “behind the scenes” window into Rem’s world, it is more “inside the brain”, like a one-on-one session with Koolhaas on the psychiatrist’s couch. This journalist-turned-architect has always been so conscious of his media portrayal as the self-styled maverick – an unparalleled master of irony, allergic to nostalgia and sentimentality – that the first-person narrative reveals a surprising vulnerability. In places, it verges on schmaltzy mysticism.......Continue Reading

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