delirious New York

The audience witness to a theatrical patchwork of images that burst into a process of free and personal association entrusted to the mind of the onlooker. The show hides a survey on human behaviour within the contemporary city: on stage are four people who, despite speaking the same language or different ones, can not communicate with each other. Notwithstanding the lack of communication, they still continue to talk to each other, and trying to get something out of this situation without worrying too much how. To emerge is a doubt: that the alacrity with which they try to overtake this lack of communication is a metaphor of their desire for a clearer identity? The question remains open, but the starting point is still a text of contemporary architecture that, like no one else, has succeeded in introducing itself into the genesis of a mythological city like New York City.

Rem Koolhaas
Born in Rotterdam in 1944, he became a journalist for the Haase Post and began making various film scripts. His writing made him famous long before his buildings. After studying at the Architecture Association School in London in 1972, he received the Harkness Fellowship to travel and study in the United States of America. At this time he writes Delirious New York writes, a text that critics immediately defined a classic of architecture of modern society. In 1975, again in London, he founded the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA) with Madelon Vriesendorm, Elia and Zoe Zenghelis. With OMA he created a series of buildings that enter into recent history of architecture such as the new Dutch Theater in Hauge, the Porto music house and the new campus at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Currently, his studio has offices in Rotterdam, New York, Beijing, Hong Kong and Doha.