In 2006, he purchased Koolhaas’ stake in the office and renamed the company REX Architecture. Entrusted to establish OMA’s first New York branch at the start of the millennium, he led projects such as Seattle’s acclaimed Central Library and the Guggenheim-Hermitage Museum in Las Vegas. Whatever its roots, Prince-Ramus has had no shortage of successes.
Architecture is made by a team of committed people who work together, and in fact, success usually has more to do with dumb determination than with genius.” “Architecture is not created by individuals”, he once told a room of journalists. The 30-strong practice he leads does not bear his name and he fiercely rejects the ‘starchitect’ label. Unlike them, though, he has kept a relatively low profile. The American architect Joshua Prince-Ramus is another member of this illustrious club, who, like the others on the list, also decided to step out from Koolhaas’ formidable shadow and go it alone. Has there ever been a more prolific and consistent architectural talent factory than Rem Koolhaas’ Office of Metropolitan Architecture? Over four decades, the studio has launched the careers of a whole generation of today’s most influential and skyline-shaping designers among them Zaha Hadid, Jeanne Gang, Ole Scheeren, Bjarke Ingels, Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Fernando Romero.
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