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Rem Koolhaas has been named the winner of an international competition for a campus center at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), a much-coveted commission because of the Chicago university's historic link with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The center, which will be the first new building at IIT in 25 years, gives Koolhaas a chance to realize urban theories from his cinderblock-size 1995 book S,M,L,XL. The other finalists were Peter Eisenman, FAIA; Helmut Jahn, FAIA, and structural engineer Wener Sobek; Zaha Hadid; and Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa.