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...Koolhaas, the most important factor affecting contemporary architecture is globalization. "For the first time," he says, "an architect can build all over the world." He lives in London (though he spends much of the year in hotels), has an office in Rotterdam and runs an ongoing research project at Harvard that studies the Pearl River Delta, a rapidly emerging urban area in China. "It's clear," he maintains, "that you shouldn't just import; you should use the cultural potential of each country in such a way that it synthesizes with your interests. The MCA project is a beautiful project...
...Unger Rotterdam...
Leendert van Ryswyk Rotterdam, the Netherlands...
...world) that he can render you dizzy with exhilaration. This isn't dumbness but a particular form of sensory intelligence that has always been rare in American art and came, in this case, from outside it. De Kooning arrived in the U.S. as an illegal immigrant from Rotterdam in 1926. He was a gifted draftsman who had already achieved a high level of academic training. But he gradually learned to connect that to a modernist syntax, fusing the line of Ingres and the fragmentation of the antique torso to 1930s Picasso and his American derivatives like Arshile Gorky. Seated Figure...
Relatively few emigrants found the paradise promised by the ads and the letters home. The early arrivals were, by and large, poor, ill-schooled and young (two-thirds were between 15 and 39 years old). In Europe's principal ports of exodus -- Liverpool and Cork, Bremen and Rotterdam -- they were beset by thieves and hucksters, cheated by ship's captains (there was no set fee for tickets to America) and, until the age of steam, often even ignorant of where they would eventually land. If they survived the journey -- and as many as one-third died aboard ship or within...