Frank Gehry commented on Koolhaas, ‘He has the ability to challenge everything and is one of the greatest thinkers of our time.
‘; The New York Times referred to Koolhaas as the “architect of the architect era, the architect of architects”; The Pritzker jury gave Koolhaas the rare combination of visionary implementers, philosophers and pragmatists, theorists and prophets combined with architects.
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