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[23rd Pritzker Prize 2000 -- Rem Koolhaas]
- interpretation
"I think I've always been somebody who believes that architecture is much more than building ...This is the first time they've given the award to somebody with those ideas." (Rem Koolhaas, in Juliet J Chung, hc_00.04.25)
- perception
"He's in the process of [creating] future accomplishments." (Assistant Professor of Architecture Ronald Witte, in Juliet J Chung, hc_00.04.25)
- he played
"He's someone you want to play with intellectually." (Associate Professor of Architecture Preston S Cohen, in Juliet J Chung, hc_00.04.25)
- "only do research"
"Koolhaas's grandfather was an architect, his mother a painter, and his father a writer. He knew he wanted to be an architect from an early age. " (Bonnie Churchill, csm_00.04.20)
- screenwriter
"Koolhaas said he is a relative latecomer to architecture. ...." (Juliet J Chung, hc_00.04.25)
- prepared statement
"He is not a formalist, yet he creates form ... He is not a functionalist, yet programs are the generators of his solutions; he is not a theoretician, yet ideas
dominate his work" (Jorge Silvetti, in cnn_00.04.17)
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