Rem Koolhaas – “Conscious Inspiration”
Rem Koolhaas and OMA’s projects ,are known all over the world.
Their buildings are source of inspiration for architects worldwide.
This week I will publish in my blog, some examples of what I think were the sources of inspiration for Rem Koolhaas.
I will also post examples of architectural offices that got the inspiration from his buildings.
My posts , will show examples of “conscious inspiration”
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Someone Has Built It Before 
June 30, 2010 at 6:29 pm
What you describe are esthetical resemblances between random buildings that have been designed by the two offices totally independently and without the “inspiration” you discovered here. The dates you mention are dates of publication and not of the design. Both the OMA and the MVRDV building have been designed well before the date you mention. This series of yours is insinuating relationships which do not exist and is therefore a pure esthetical comparison lacking intellect, besides, it represents almost an insult to whichever office is supposed to be “inspired” by the other.
Regards,
Jan Knikker
MVRDV