Committee on the Environment

I disagreed with Koolhaas.

 

Of course, it wasn't me who had the discussion with Rem Koolhaas in Philadelphia in front of a few thousand architects. That honor belonged to the Dean of the Harvard School of Design, Mohsen Mastafavi.

I only watched.  First, when I stood right at the front door of the convention center pondering the falling rain and the fact that I had left my umbrella in my room. Koolhaas walked up with the Harvard Dean in tow, the one tall, slender and bold, the other short, chubby and with a waving mane. It was two hours before the keynote and the two were headed towards the convention hall to scout out the location. They opened the door, unencumbered, without much notice and I didn't say a thing.

 

Later, when the "keynote" turned into this armchair conversation between two old white men that conference organizers wrongly consider a preferable variant to the traditional speech, presumably because it is casual. Old is relative, of course. ... For full article click link:

I disagreed with Koolhaas.

 

Of course, it wasn't me who had the discussion with Rem Koolhaas in Philadelphia in front of a few thousand architects. That honor belonged to the Dean of the Harvard School of Design, Mohsen Mastafavi.

I only watched.  First, when I stood right at the front door of the convention center pondering the falling rain and the fact that I had left my umbrella in my room. Koolhaas walked up with the Harvard Dean in tow, the one tall, slender and bold, the other short, chubby and with a waving mane. It was two hours before the keynote and the two were headed towards the convention hall to scout out the location. They opened the door, unencumbered, without much notice and I didn't say a thing.

 

Later, when the "keynote" turned into this armchair conversation between two old white men that conference organizers wrongly consider a preferable variant to the traditional speech, presumably because it is casual. Old is relative, of course. ... For full article click link: