Carol Patterson, 'OMA - 13 Years, 2 Buildings (and 11 projects)'

Carol Patterson completed her undergraduate study at the University of California Berkeley and received her Master's degree with honors from Columbia University in New York. She has worked for many highly acclaimed offices around the world, including Rogers Marvel in New York and Norman Foster and Arup in London. She worked with Rem Koolhaas and the Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam from 2000 to 2003 and again in London since 2006. She had primary responsibility on the Seattle Public Library and has been the lead architect on the extensions for the Whitney Museum and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. She recently completed the design and construction of a new headquarters for Rothschild Bank, a conservation site in the City of London on which Rothschild has been located since 1808. Carol is the director for OMA's projects in the United Kingdom.

OMA is a leading international partnership practicing architecture, urbanism, and cultural analysis. OMA's buildings and masterplans around the world insist on intelligent forms while inventing new possibilities for content and everyday use. OMA is led by six partners - Rem Koolhaas, Ellen van Loon, Reinier de Graaf, Shohei Shigematsu, Iyad Alsaka, and David Gianotten - and sustains an international practice with offices in Rotterdam, New York, Beijing, Hong Kong, and Doha.

OMA-designed buildings currently under construction include the Taipei Performing Arts Centre; the Television Cultural Centre in Beijing; Shenzhen Stock Exchange - China's equivalent of the NASDAQ exchange for hi-tech industries; three buildings in Doha, Qatar; and De Rotterdam, the largest building in the Netherlands.

The work of Rem Koolhaas and OMA has won several international awards including the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 2000, the Praemium Imperiale (Japan) in 2003, the RIBA Gold Medal (UK) in 2004, the Mies van der Rohe - European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture (2005) and the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 2010 Venice Biennale.