Hot, Cool, or Lukewarm?
If hot is exaggerated and cool is relaxed, then Koolhaas is lukewarm.
Although Rem Koolhaas’ works are sophisticated in terms of design, I’m not fully convinced that they’re “cool”. This is solely based on the images and not from experience. And I also understand that there’s a connection between design and context. But is the final form truly an output of a set of parameters or is there a little dash of artistic “hot” expression? For this reason, I think his work is not too hot or too cool but somewhere along the lines of lukewarm.
I agree that "lukewarm" is a perfect description for Koolhaas's architecture. I am not convinced that solely parameters of programmatic complexities and experiential circulation produce oddly faceted forms or sweeping angles above ones head.
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