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Going DutchCan Rem Koolhaas hold onto the title of world's most influential architect?

By Christopher Hawthorne
Updated Monday, April 19, 2004, at 6:12 PM ET

A slide-show essay on the rock star of architecture.

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Christopher Hawthorne is the architecture critic for the Los Angeles Times.
Photographs of: Seattle Public Library, photographer Pragnesh Parikh, OMA/LMN; Rem Koolhaas © Miki Kratsman/Corbis; Prada store © OMA; Mies van der Rohe's Crown Hall, IIT courtesy of IIT; The McCormick Tribune Campus Center, IIT © 2003 Richard Barnes; The McCormick Tribune Campus Center, IIT © 2003 Richard Barnes; Seattle Public Library courtesy Seattle Public Library, photographer Pragnesh Parikh; Astor Place Hotel © OMA; CCTV, Beijing © OMA; CCTV © OMA; Maison à Bordeaux, 1998 © Hans Werlemann (Hectic Pictures); Netherlands Dance Theatre © Hans Werlemann (Hectic Pictures); Prada store © OMA; Togok Towers (unbuilt) © OMA.
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