Archinect - News 2024-12-22T09:18:38-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/23808482/you-would-have-to-be-a-missionary "You would have to be a missionary" Nam Henderson 2011-10-13T22:54:06-04:00 >2011-10-14T08:04:18-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/nx/nxrfz2dcixjznyo2.png?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>Rem-There's more and more and more building in the world and buildings growing out like wild plants, across the planet and 90% of them are just, rubish, or junk. You are, your totally right and you would have to be a missionary, to uh, to kind of even attempt to deal with it. And, to some extent um, I think, I am a missionary.</p></em><br /><br /><p> Jonathan Glancey talks to co-founder Rem Koolhaas about his work ethic, new buildings in the UK and why he nearly went into politics. Additionally, Rowan Moore reports on the <a href="http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=12472" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">OMA/Progress exhibition at the Barbican</a> for the <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/oct/09/rem-koolhaas-oma-progress-barbican?INTCMP=SRCH" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Guardian</a> and finds that the exhibit <a href="http://rotordb.org/projects/2011_OMA-Progress_London/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">curated/designed</a> by <a href="http://rotordb.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Rotor</a>&nbsp;is&nbsp;as "<em>intelligent and challenging as the practice itself</em>".</p>