For Barend Koolhaas, it’s not a family business, but there’s definitely something in the genes. His father’s brother, Teun Koolhaas, was a noted Dutch architect and urban planner. Then, of course, there’s Rem—one of several cousins in the profession.
Barend, however, grew up wanting to design cars. After graduating with an architecture degree from the Delft University of Technology, he had a small commission for a project that was part architecture, part design object. Wildflower, a small, round construction with a floor plan that opens and closes like a flower, was a prototype meant to be sold as an alternative to the unimaginative school annex buildings found throughout the Netherlands.
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