In 1995 his book S,M,L,XL summarized the work of OMA and established connections between contemporary society and architecture. In 1978 Koolhaas garnered attention among architects and architectural critics when he published Delirious New York, a Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan. Recent AMO projects include image restructuring for Condé Nast magazines Lucky and Wired and a study on the future of the automobile for Volkswagen. In addition, he heads OMA's conceptual branch, AMO, a think tank focused on social, economic and technological issues. He was a co-founder and is currently head of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), an international design firm with offices in Rotterdam, New York and Beijing. Its projects include a study on China's Pearl River Delta (published as Great Leap Forward ), an analysis of the role of retail and consumption in the contemporary society ( The Harvard Guide to Shopping ) and studies on Rome, Lagos, Moscow and Beijing. Koolhaas is a professor at Harvard University, where he conducts the Project on the City, a research program investigating changing urban conditions around the world. ![]() Other prominent Koolhaas projects are: the Seattle Public Library the master plan and design for the Grand Palais in Lille, France and the Kunsthal in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In Beijing, work has begun on Koolhaas' largest building ever, the China Central Television Building, expected to be completed in time for the Olympic Games in that city in 2008. Koolhaas' just-completed Casa da Musica concert hall in Porto, Portugal, was pictured in the Times story and described as a building "whose intellectual ardor is matched by its sensual beauty" as well as "one of the most important concert halls built in the last 100 years." "He has long been celebrated as one of architecture's most audacious thinkers," wrote Nicolai Ouroussoff about the architect in The New York Times April 10. Koolhaas was awarded the Pritzker Prize in 2000, considered architecture's equivalent to the Nobel Prize. It is sponsored by the College of Architecture, Art and Planning, which Koolhaas attended briefly before completing his studies at the Architectural Association in London. His talk, which is free and open to the public, will be at 6 p.m. Rem Koolhaas, considered one of the most innovative architects in the world today, will speak at Cornell University April 25 about his recent work. Here, we’ve separated the biggest gems from the large pile of rock’n’roll antiquities to create a list of the most classic of classic rock tracks – the ones that kids just picking up guitars will forever be trying to learn…as long as guitars still exist.ITHACA, N.Y. Just because something’s from the ‘60s or ‘70s and gets played on the radio doesn’t mean it endures as an all-time jam. Not all classic rock is created equal, though. It’s the music your parents listened to that you probably spent much of your youth attempting to reject, before giving in and admitting that it’s awesome. But for the time being, when we use the phrase ‘classic rock’, it conjures a few distinct images. Given its waning cultural profile, all rock’n’roll is rapidly becoming classic – as in, an antique.
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