Koolhaas seems to expect such departures--in fact, his firm was designed to create them. He founded the generically named Office of Metropolitan Architecture specifically as an antidote to starchitecture--that is, the tendency to give all the design credit to the founding partner, at the cost of subsuming the work of the people who did much of the heavy lifting. (Architects often call that practice "eating the young"--and many famous firms have been criticized for it.)

eating the young..