庫哈斯（Rem Koolhaas）是一位擅長書寫城市現代性的建築師，從「譫狂紐約」開始，就如班雅明（Walter Benjamin）書寫巴黎為十九世紀現代性之都那樣，紐約是庫哈斯的廿世紀之都。班雅明的計畫是以巴黎來彰顯十九世紀歐洲現代性，用大量史料編纂出十九世紀資本主義魔法的諸種面貌，描述這個如地下莖一般秘密聯繫的世界，揭示那個時代特有的辯證意象，類如大衛．哈維（David Harvey）在「巴黎：現代性之都」中書寫的那樣。對我來說，OMA的臺北表演藝術中心正是哈維關於巴黎的現代性書寫的臺北版。

Rem Koolhaas is an architect who is good at writing urban modernity. Starting from Delirious New York , just like Walter Benjamin writing Paris as the capital of modernity in the 19th century, New York is Koolhaas’ capital in the 20th century. Benjamin planned to highlight the modernity of Europe in the 19th century through Paris with a large amount of historical materials to compile various aspects of the magic of capitalism in the 19th century. He described the world which was secretly connected like underground stems and revealed the unique image of dialectics in that era, similar to what David Harvey wrote in Paris: Capital of Modernity. For me, OMA's Taipei Performing Arts Center is exactly the Taipei version of Harvey's writings about Paris modernity.