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"Had he only done the Bordeaux Project, his niche in the history of architecture would have been secure," the jury's prize citation read.
He is the founder of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, a design firm in Rotterdam.
A journalist and screenwriter until the age of 25, Koolhaas said he is a relative latecomer to architecture.
"You have to invent things for people to do [in screenplays], and you have to work with episodes in architecture and string them together," he said.
Associate Professor of Architecture Preston S. Cohen said many critics acknowledge Koolhaas as the leading architect of his time.