One of the most distinguished architects in the world, Rem Koolhaas – who also designed the College of Art, Architecture and Planning’s Milstein Hall – gave a lecture about America’s contributions to architecture on Wednesday. Call Auditorium in Kennedy Hall was packed with Cornell architecture students as well as visitors from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Syracuse University for the lecture. 

Koolhaas arrived in Ithaca in 1972 as an architecture student, after graduating from the Architectural Association in London. He went on to found the famed Office for Metropolitan Architecture with some partners in 1975.
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