access to the production procedure. An unfortunate incident that highlighted the folly of the circulation scheme (no effective fire egress for people on the upper floors), was the construction fire that nearly destroyed the building and a nearby hotel in 2009. In February 2020, his exhibition Countryside,The Future opened at the Guggenheim in New York City. The exhibition closed within a month, after New York City closed all its major art institutions in connection with the Covid-19 pandemic. Personal life Koolhaas was previously married to Madelon Vriesendorp, an artist who is the mother of his two children, Charlie, a photographer, and Tomas, a filmmaker. Koolhaas divorced Vriesendorp in 2012. He has known his current partner Petra Blaisse, an interior and landscape designer, since 1986. Selected projects Villa dall’Ava, (Saint-Cloud, 1991) Nexus World Housing (Fukuoka, 1991) Kunsthal (Rotterdam, 1992) Euralille (Lille, 1994) Educatorium (Utrecht, 1995) Maison à Bordeaux (Bordeaux, 1998) Embassy of the Netherlands (Berlin, 2003) McCormick Tribune Campus Center (Chicago, 2003) Seoul National University Museum of Art (Seoul, 2005) Seattle Central Library (Seattle, 2005) Casa da Música (Porto, 2005) Dee and Charles Wyly Theater (Dallas, 2009) CCTV Headquarters, (Beijing, 2012) De Rotterdam (Rotterdam, 2013) Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Moscow, 2014) Qatar National Library (Doha, 2017) Taipei Performing Arts Center (Taipei, 2022) Bibliography Project Japan. Metabolism Talks... (2011) (with Hans Ulrich Obrist) Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan (1978) S,M,L,XL (1995) Serpentine Gallery: 24 Hour Interview Marathon (2007) Living Vivre Leben (1998)Content (2004) Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2006''; Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, Germany 2008 Gallery See also Contemporary architecture World Architecture Survey List of architects Koolhaas Houselife References External links Office for Metropolitan Architecture OMA official Facebook page (updated daily) OMA official Vimeo channel OMA portfolio on Archello.com Rem Koolhaas at Harvard University Urgency 2007: Rem Koolhaas and Peter Eisenman lectures, Canadian Centre for Architecture, 8 June 2007 Rem Koolhaas in conversation with Mirko Zardini and Giovanna Borasi, Rotterdam, 26 August 2015, for the exhibition The Other Architect, Canadian Centre for Architecture On Starchitecture Koolhaas at Harvard's Ecological Urbanism Rem Koolhaas: A Kind of Architect (2008 Feature Documentary) Rem Koolhaas lecture "Russia for Beginners" at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art: September 15th, 2014 Rem Koolhaas on Empty Canon 1944 births 20th-century Dutch architects 21st-century Dutch architects Architectural theoreticians Urban theorists Deconstructivism Postmodern architecture Dutch non-fiction writers Living people Cornell University College of Architecture, Art, and Planning alumni