Rem Koolhaas : Action

At first was the action": so the Faust de Goethe translates the first sentence of saint Jean's Gospel, replacing in a godless way "verb" by "action". Of same Rem koolhaas, still studying, will immediately have understood, beyond the space and beyond the form, the importance of the situations and the actions in architecture. The short-lived Berlin Wall, more than the Pantheon, the Gothic cathedral or the Chandigarh of him Corbusier, gleams poisonously as an inescapable reference. This hallucinatory border bounded two paradoxical programmatic territories a zone of abundance and a zone of shortage checkpoints of which porosities created, by their feverish animation, the intense places of a new urban order. A traumatic scene which will be transposed into the infinity in all its work, in other examples: in a luxury house lost in the Dutch campaign or in the unimplemented project for the Parc de La Villette in Paris, in the future campus Axel Springer in Berlin or in accommodated her da Musica of Porto ...