Zoe Zenghelis

Koolhaas has spent time in New York, has been thinking obsessively about Manhattan, about density and congestion as a kind of cultural technology rather than a problem to be solved.

He and Zenghelis, along with Madelon Vriesendorp and Zoe Zenghelis, are in these years assembling the loose confederation of ideas that will soon coalesce on paper, at least into something called the Office for Metropolitan Architecture.

She does not know yet that she is standing at the edge of that formation.

She only knows that when Koolhaas looks at a drawing, he does not ask whether it is correct.