In early 2002, my office received two invitations: one to propose a design for Ground Zero, the other to propose a design for the headquarters of China Central Television in Beijing. We discussed the choice over Chinese food. The life of the architect is so fraught with uncertainty and dilemmas that any clarification of the future, including astrology, is disproportionately welcome. My fortune cookie that night read: Stunningly Omnipresent Masters make minced meat of memory.
We chose China.
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Rem Koolhaas is founder of OMA-AMO, the architecture firm and research group. This piece is adapted from his new book, Content (Taschen), produced with Simon Brown, Jon Link, and Brendan McGetrick.
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