Rem Koolhaas https://www.architecturalrecord.com/rss/2651 en-us At OMA’s Taipei Performing Arts Center, Building as Public Performance http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15951 Thu, 01 Dec 2022 06:08:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/15951-at-omas-taipei-performing-arts-center-building-as-public-performance 2017 Architecture & Design Film Festival’s Lineup Plays with Tradition and Form From the inner world of Rem Koolhaas to how a garden designer transformed health care design, ADFF 2017 delivers big names and new angles.

]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13026 Fri, 29 Sep 2017 12:00:00 -0400 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13026-2017-architecture-and-design-film-festivals-lineup-plays-with-tradition-and-form A still from the Rem Koolhaus documentary, REM, directed by his son Tomas. Photo © Tomas Koolhaus The film Building Hope: The Maggie’s Centres, by Sarah Howitt, portrays how one woman’s cancer diagnosis sparked the transformation of treatment centers. The Frank Gehry-designed Maggie’s Centre in Dundee, Scotland, is among the projects featured in the film. Photo courtesy ADFF The festival opens with the documentary, Glenn Murcutt: Spirit of Place, which explores the life and work of Australia’s most internationally recognized architect, pictured here on the roof of his Australian Islamic Centre in Melbourne. Photo © Jesse Marlow/Fairfax SuperDesign, a new documentary by Francesca Molteni, retraces the history and heritage of Italian Radical Design, which rose to prominence in the 1960s and 1970s. The Superonda sofa, pictured here, was designed by Archizoom Associati and is an enduring symbol of the movement. Photo © Dario Bartolini, courtesy of Centro Studi Poltronova Actors Haley Lu Richardson and John Cho star in Koganada’s debut film, Columbus. The film will be the festival’s first screening of a narrative film. Photo © Elisha Christian/Superlative Films/Depth of Field