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Dreaming of Rem

Dreaming of Rem

We’ve noted recently the preponderance of architectural documentaries, particularly those concerns the fields “greats”—from Gehry to Mockbee, Kahn to Shulman. Well, now you can add Rem Koolhaas to the list, asArchinect points usto this trailer for a new documentary in the works entitledRem Koolhaas: A Kind of Architect. The film gota nice little write-upin—where else—the SeattleTimes, which explains that the documentary is as much about Koolhaas’ arrival at architecture as the architecture itself. Though that often seems to be the case, especially with Rem. How else could such a famous architect declare: “One of the exciting things about architecture is it gives you so many reasons to be modest. Because there are so many levels on which you can fail.” But at least we get all those cool visuals produced by OMA and AMO of buildings melding and morphing, as though there were a firm better suited to the big screen. After all, he’s a multimedia star, having already conqueredmusicand排版.

The recently released Koolhand, a font inspired by Rem Koolhaas.

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