Remment Lucas "Rem" Koolhaas (/ˈrɛm ˈkɔːlhɑːs/; born 17 November 1944) is a Dutch architect, architectural theorist, urbanist and Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. Koolhaas studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Koolhaas is the founding partner of OMA, and of its research-oriented counterpart AMO based in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. In 2005, he co-founded Volume Magazine together with Mark Wigley and Ole BoumanIn 2000, Rem Koolhaas won the Pritzker Prize. In 2008, Time put him in their top 100 of The World's Most Influential People.
He attended filmschool with fellow directors/cameramen Jan de Bont and Frans Bromet. They founded the 1,2,3-group at the filmacademy of Amsterdam in the late sixties.