Join Film Streams, design alliance OMAha, and Omaha Creative Institute for a special screening and discussion devoted to internationally celebrated architect, writer, social commentator, and provocateur Rem Koolhaas. Tickets: $9 general, $7 students, teachers, seniors, military, daOMA and Omaha Creative Institute Members, and $4.50 Film Streams Members.

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REM KOOLHAAS – A KIND OF ARCHITECT: Rarely has an architect caused as much sensation outside of the architecture community as Rem Koolhaas. His outstanding creations such as the Dutch Embassy in Berlin, the Seattle Library, the Casa da Musica concert hall in Porto, and the Guggenheim Heritage Museum in Las Vegas are working examples of the Dutchman’s visionary theories about architecture and urban society. Koolhaas’ work is as much about ideas as it is about constructing buildings; he is equally celebrated as a writer and social commentator. For him, what is essential is not to create individual masterpieces, but to provoke and excite through the wide range of his activities. A KIND OF ARCHITECT is visually inventive and thought-provoking portrait of a visionary man that takes us to the heart of his ideas.

KOOLHAAS HOUSELIFE: A film on one of the masterpieces of contemporary architecture: The House in Bordeaux designed in 1998 by Rem Koolhaas / OMA. Unlike most movies about architecture, HOUSELIFE focuses less on explaining the building, its structure and its virtuosity than on letting the viewer enter into the invisible bubble of the daily intimacy of an architectural icon.