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Rem Koolhaas's design was chosen in February 1998 from a
field of five finalists - including Peter Eisenman, Zaha Hadid,
Helmut Jahn, and Kazuyo Sejima - in an international
competition to design the new campus center, the focus
of a new campus master plan by Mies's grandson Dirk Lohan.
A possible reason for selecting Koolhaas is because his design
comes closest to balancing the Modernist principles of Mies
with contemporary, avant-garde architecture, whereas the four
other architects' designs split between the former (Jahn and
Sejima) and the latter (Eisenman and Hadid). While this is
only speculation it helps in considering the school's wishes
to be of its time without completely abandoning its past.
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