Architecture’s Second Looks, and Second Acts – The New York Times

In 2006, Joshua Ramus, a 36-year-old protégé of the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, left Koolhaas’s hugely influential firm, Office for Metropolitan Architecture, to go off on his own. In the kind of power play more typical of Hollywood talent agencies than architecture studios, he also took O.M.A.’s entire 35-person New York office with him.What made the episode especially surprising was that Koolhaas, hardly known for a sentimental or softhearted streak, agreed to speak to The New York Times for an article announcing the split. While generously giving credit to the younger architect for the work he’d helped lead in New York, Koolhaas made sure to draw a bright line between Ramus’s designs and his own: “My interest is to clarify, so we don’t get a blur between what is the work of Joshua Ramus and what is the work of O.M.A.”

Source: Architecture’s Second Looks, and Second Acts – The New York Times