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About Hal FosterRem Koolhaas

Rem Koolhaas is a Dutch architect architectural theorist urbanist and Professor in the Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. He has published works on the evolution of the contemporary metropolis and been responsible for landmark urban projects such as the Euralille development in northern France and the CCTV Tower in Beijing and has designed master plans for among other places suburban Paris the Libyan desert and Hong Kong. Hal Foster is Professor of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of many books including Design and Crime Prosthetic Gods The Art-Architecture Complex and The First Pop Age. He writes regularly for October (which he co-edits) Artforum and the London Review of Books. He was the 2013 recipient of the Frank Jewett Mather Award for Art Criticism. He lives in Princeton.