![]() ![]() Tomas koolhaas (TK): as a filmmaker it is very important. The movie documents rem koolhaas as he works and travels around the world this polyphony of voices cuts through all generations, interests, social layers and nationalities… it is actually one of the great glories of making architecture. ![]() I would estimate that for a project such as the qatar national library, at least 500 interactions were important: 2/3 maybe as part of the formal design and realization process, and 1/3 in the form of informal consultations, observations, how the building is made and received… you have to deploy a huge scale of actions: you have to impress, seduce, impose, rationalize, convince. ![]() roughly speaking you could say: exploration, concept, project development, construction, occupancy, each of these implies a vast variety of interfaces, interactions, negotiations, collaborations, visits, travel, discussions. Rem koolhaas (RK): each architectural project is subdivided in phases. how important is a variety of voices in the creative process, and the successful development of a project of any kind? this personal approach continues in the film’s documentation of the buildings’ users, whose lives are also explored in relation to rem koolhaas’ architecture.Īhead of REM’s release on various formats in the netherlands, the US, and the UK on may 1, 2018, designboom spoke with tomas koolhaas as well as the film’s protagonist - rem himself.ĭesignboom (DB): the film shows rem interacting with a range of people, from builders to artists and curators. the film intimately explores rem koolhaas’ life, working methods, and philosophy from a first person perspective - a viewpoint intended to induce the feeling of being inside rem’s head. In 2016, after years of chronicling his father’s work around the globe, los angeles-based filmmaker tomas koolhaas released ‘REM’ - a documentary that gives its audience unprecedented insight into the life of one of today’s most acclaimed architects. ![]()
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