''I see architecture as almost a political work,'' said Remment ''Rem'' Koolhaas, the superstar Dutch architect, touching on his signature ethos, his condemnation of architecture’s passivity and its inability and unwillingness to confront or resolve the socio-political complexities of urban life, problems often stoked by globalization. 

''We are in a radically divided world'' in which ''architecture is not dealing with those political issues in a really sophisticated way,'' said Koolhaas [...]

A bold, trailblazing architectural theorist, writer, and a professor of architecture and urban design at Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD), Koolhaas spoke about a changing Europe and the ideas behind four recent projects in Taiwan, Russia, Qatar, and Milan, his “current preoccupations,” before a capacity crowd at GSD Tuesday evening......Continue Reading

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