Rem Koolhaas, born in Rotterdam, the Netherlands in 1944, is a Dutch architect, chief designer of OMA, and a professor of architecture and urban planning at the Harvard University Design Institute. In his early years, he worked as a journalist and film writer. Koolhaas won the 22nd Pritzker Prize in 2000. 

Rem Koolhaas spent his childhood in Indonesia, then moved to Amsterdam, worked in screenwriting and worked as a journalist in his early years. From 1968 to 1972, Koolhaas studied architecture at the Institute of Architectural Association (AA: School of Architecture) in London, and then went to Cornell University in the United States. Rem Koolhass, Elia Zenghelis, Madelon Vriesendorp and Zoe Zenghelis founded the Metropolitan Architects (OMA) in London in 1975, and the headquarters of OMA was later relocated Rotterdam.

In 1972, the Harkness Research Scholarship allowed him to live and work in the United States for a long time. From 1972 to 1979 he worked at the then-famous Ungers Architects and Peter Eiserman's New York City Planning and Architecture Research Office, and also taught at Yale and UCLA; in 1975, Koolhaas and his colleagues The collaborators co-founded OMA, trying to explore new ideas for the development of modern architecture in today's cultural environment through theory and practice.