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Rem Koolhaas Quotes

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Architecture is a dangerous mixture of power and impotence  (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) Sustainability has become an ornament  (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) Infrastructure is much more important than architecture  (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) The City is an addictive machine from which there is no escape  (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) Without a tighter union, Europe will disintegrate  (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) But now sustainability is such a political category that it’s getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament  (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) It is not possible to live in this age if you don’t have a sense of many contradictory forces  (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) The city is no longer. We can leave the theatre now  (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) I’d say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their ‘architectures’ as well  (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt  (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) Miami Beach is a completely interesting hybrid because it is, on the one hand, a resort and, on the other hand, a real city. This condition of city and water on two sides I think is really amazing. And in the heart of that city, it has put an enormous convention center, an enormous physical presence  (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) It’s a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And the uglier the buildings, the more coherent the city.  (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I’m definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times.  (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) Lagos was the ultimate dysfunctional city - but actually, in terms of all the initiatives and ingenuity, it mobilised an incredibly beautiful, almost utopian landscape of independence and agency.  (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness and things get interesting  (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) That has been my entire life story, running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated.  (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) I like fashion, whether or not it’s overpriced, because it creates a sense of the sublime with relatively few means.  (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) But now sustainability is such a political category that it’s getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament.  (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) Architecture is a rare collective profession: it’s always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.  (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) Journalists seem mostly interested in what brand of shoes I wear  (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) The good is not a category that interests me  (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen  (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency  (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) In the end, there will be little else for us to do but shop  (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance  (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) Find optimism in the inevitable  (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding  (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies  (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity  (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) It’s a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. and the uglier the buildings, the more coherent the city  (Rem Koolhaas Quotes)
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