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Rem Koolhaas OMA/AMO; Buildings, projects, and concepts since 1996

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Petr Šmídek
20.01.2004 13:00
Content subst [content] 1 content (of a book) 2 satisfaction; (table of) -s content in a book; [k?n´tent] adj satisfied.
English-Czech Dictionary, Fin Publishing, Olomouc 1997, p.129.

We made it at the last moment. The location and date of the exhibition was not random. Rem has each of his steps planned with the brilliance of chess grandmasters. Just 3.5 kilometers from the gallery, the Dutch embassy was completed during the same period - his first significant realization in Germany (not counting IBU, up to that point he had "only" won competitions here). The venue was also chosen deliberately. Besides the fact that Koolhaas needs a lot of space to showcase himself in all his glory, the New National Gallery is the only post-war Mies building in Europe. In recent years, Koolhaas has spent a lot of time analyzing and reconstructing the protected Mies territory at Chicago's IIT. From this effort emerged the recently completed McCormick Tribune Campus Center in the heart of IIT and the theoretical text Miestakes.
The lucky ones who exerted superhuman effort and carefully viewed the entire exhibition certainly did not notice all the hidden references and hints, even though they were served in a digestible form. I have never experienced such a tumultuous interest in exhibited works before. The atmosphere could be compared to that of an airport terminal or a shopping gallery. The comparison to a transport structure is quite appropriate. Voices from a sea of nationalities echoed through the exhibition hall, not just from Europe. The central figure of the exhibition was present in the building during our visit, and participants from a recent trip from ČVUT have the same experience. A similar mode of presentation was recently chosen by Vladimír Kokolia in our region, who overwhelmed visitors to the Brno House of Art not only with the quantity of his work but also by conveying the perception of his paintings through his permanent physical presence.
The exhibition is accompanied by a multi-hundred-page volume that deviates in graphics, format, or price from the standards of architectural publications. This corresponds to the choice of publisher, which would be hard to consider conservative. The fact that Rem Koolhaas gets along with the head of the Taschen publishing house is demonstrated by one of the concepts presented at the exhibition - the completion of the famous Hollywood Chemosphere by John Lautner, which Benedikt Taschen owns.
The date January 18, 2004, was not the last chance to see Koolhaas's epic. The exhibition will now travel to the Kunsthall in Rotterdam, and from there it will embark on a journey through Europe, to Russia, Asia, and America.
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