One of the world's most influential and internationally recognised architects; the Dutchman Rem Koolhaas, and his architecture firm OMA, is behind the project at Bryghusgrunden.

OMA/AMO

Office for Metropolitan Architecture, OMA is a Dutch architectural firm, founded by Rem Koolhaas, Elia and Zoe Zenghelis and Madelon Vriesendorp in 1975.

The architectural firm has set up a think-tank AMO, which focuses on social, economic and technological issues.

Rem Koolhaas

Rem Koolhaas is a qualified architect from the Architectural Association in London. He is the co-founder and daily manager of OMA as well as the think-tank of the architectural firm AMO.

Rem Koolhaas also works as a professor at Harvard University in the USA, where he runs the research programme "Project on the City" which examines changing urban conditions worldwide.

Rem Koolhas is considered one of the most important thinkers of recent decades because of his OMA/AMO combination.

Nicolai Ouroussoff, reporter for the Los Angeles and New York Times, adds "Only few people would question the intellect of Rem Koolhaas - he has long been considered as one of the most audacious thinkers of the architectural world. However, in Casa da Musica which is one of his most recent projects, we see something new from him - a building of such intellectual intensity that it matches its sensual beauty." (International Herald Tribune, 9-10. April 2005).

OMA's project team at Bryghusprojektet

Rem Koolhaas, Ellen van Loon, Chris van Duijn, Dirk Peters, Daniel Rabin, Marc Dahmen, Koen Stockbroekx, Adrianne Fisher, Andrea Bertassi, Carmen Jimenez, Gabriele Pitacco, Hyoeun Kim, Konrad Milton and Ana Martins.

Buildings created by OMA:

• The Casa da Musica concert hall in Porto (Proclaimed one of the world's most important concert halls by the New York Times).
• The main library in Seattle. (Elected as "The Best Architecture 2004 by TIME Magazine).
• The Prada Epicenter in Los Angeles.
• The Dutch Embassy in Berlin.  
• CCTV in Beijiing, with a base, studios and culture centre built for China's national broadcasting company, China Central Television.

Projects from AMO:

• A study of the future of the cars for German Volkswagen.
• A study of EU's visual identity for the European Commission.

Prizes awarded to Rem Koolhaas and OMA:  

• Pritzker Architecture Prize, 2000.
• The RIBA Gold Medal, 2004.
• Mies van der Rohe-prisen, 2005. Awarded to Rem Koolhaas for the Dutch embassy in Berlin.

For more information about Rem Koolhaas and OMA visit www.oma.eu