Rem koolhass's important architectural works include: French Library (198 1), La Villette Park (1982), Bordeaux Building (1994), Dutch Embassy in Germany (1997) and the addition of the Museum of Modern Art (.
Koolhaas' architectural creation was modernist at first, and then some modeling connotations and social significance were added on this basis. And take this as the remarkable feature of his architectural creation. From a deeper level, Koolhaas is deeply influenced by surrealist art, hoping to convey the subconscious mind and various ideological motives of human beings through architecture. Architecture has some deconstructive characteristics, but it also has the color of popular culture. Because he comes from the Netherlands with strong rationalism and creativity, his design attempt is a road of deconstruction and surrealism, which is what Broadpent called "highly intuitive deconstruction". In the third part, this paper will analyze several of them in detail to illustrate their creative methodology.
As a theorist, Koolhaas wrote many works. Important contents include the following:
1. Crazy new york-Reviewing the Manhattan Declaration (new york) (1978). This book is the beginning of Kuyt's applied sociology research on architectural problems.
2. Small, medium, large and oversize (SMLXL) (1995). This book is a record of Kuyt and his colleagues using phenomenological knowledge to think about architectural concepts.
3. The Great Leap Forward) (2002). This book is the result of Kucher's research on architecture and urban conditions after he became a professor at Harvard School of Architecture and Urban Studies. He takes "urban projects" as the unit. Including the study of five cities in the Pearl River Delta of China.
4. Harvard Design School Shopping Guide (2002). This book studies the role of shopping and retail consumption in cities.
These become the text sources for us to analyze Koolhaas' design philosophy.
From 65438 to 0988, new york Museum of Modern Art held the "Seven-person Exhibition of Deconstructed Architecture", including rem koolhass. From 65438 to 0995, Koolhaas became the theme of the annual retrospective exhibition of new york Museum of Modern Art, with the title of "rem koolhass and Gonggong Architectural Space".
In May 2000, rem koolhass was awarded the 25th Pulitzer Prize for Architecture.
Second, reflection on social role and professional perspective-rem koolhass's architectural theory.
For the convenience of narration, we divide Koolhaas' theory into urban theory and architectural creation theory, and describe them separately.
1 urban theory
Anyone who has read Koolhaas' works will feel that his books are as novel and dazzling as his works; And constantly full of jumping, I don't know what to say. How to understand Koolhaas' theory? This paper attempts to understand Koolhaas from two aspects: his narrative mode and theoretical basis.
New york without Mind (1978) is a fantastic "architectural novel" written by Koolhaas in the field of metropolitan architecture, and it is also the most important document to understand Koolhaas' urban theory. This aesthetic text, which integrates papers, schemes and works, surreally criticizes the strong cultural reality of contemporary metropolises. Surrealism is divorced from the general theoretical discourse structure. The general theoretical model is: what (ontology of the problem)-why (research methodology of the problem)-how to do it (practical significance and solution of the problem). Judging from the related works of Koolhaas, she only pays attention to the rendering and elaboration of the first step, occasionally involves the research methodology of the second point, and rarely mentions the third point. This kind of wanton writing style, which seems to have been developed from a journalist's career, has formed Koolhaas' research habit.
In the process of understanding the city, Koolhaas' thinking path did not follow the established theoretical framework of architecture. However, from the perspective of sociology, such as the influence of network on social form, the change of lifestyle in the new era, the necessity of architectural revolution, the thinking of urban development speed and the progress of capital wealth in cities.