Navigating Modernization
Rem Koolhaas
On the tools and inventions of modernity.
American University of Beirut, , 17 May 2010




In this lecture, Rem Koolhaas explains aspects of modernization and OMA's efforts to understand what that means, espeically as a number of inventions have changed architecture in a way that was unimaginable 100 years ago. "In many ways you could explain our work as an attempt to outwit and deal with situations that don't simply create nostalgia for the role of the previous archtiect (who operated in a largely public sector), but strategize ways in which we can productively operate in this effort." - RK