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ARCHITECTURE / TALK REM KOOLHAAS AND CEES NOOTEBOOM
Royal Festival Hall
Tuesday 7 March [7:45pm]
South Bank, SE1 T:0870.401.8181 Tube: Embankment/Waterloo
?8.50
The bad boy of architecture Rem Koolhaas comes to London to chat with fellow Dutchman Cees Noteboom about the perception of time. As an underappreciated novelist, poet and travel writer, Nooteboom was once referred to by Nobelist JM Coetzee as "...too intelligent, too sophisticated, too cool...". Koolhaas makes good company as he frequently trades his academic robes for Prada suits, and when he does he exemplifies the architect as slick public intellectual. He is principal architect at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, known in art/architecture circles as OMA, and is directly responsible for such high profile projects as the recent Seattle public library where readers collide with each other in a series of ramps that cut through the book stacks. How can you not love Koolhaas, a man who refers to brand name shopping as "a megalomaniac accumulation of the obvious". Both authors are known to have pushed the limits of their respective fields and that mixes up high anticipation for an unusual evening of intellectual banter.
NB: throughout March, the Royal Festival Hall is hosting a series of talks on the perception of time called Stop The Clock (other highlighted speakers include Hilary Mantel and Ismail Kadare).