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Rem Koolhaas Quotes

Nobody should be anything, but because I once had a different profession and I’m interested in writing, I took it upon me Picture Quote #1

Prada is extremely directed in terms of communicating what they like and what they don’t like. That is actually extremely pleasant because it clarifies very easily what you can do and what you need to do Picture Quote #1

The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models Picture Quote #1

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture Picture Quote #1

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning Picture Quote #1

We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living Picture Quote #1

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Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual Picture Quote #1

If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it Picture Quote #1

Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone elses hands Picture Quote #1

Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate Picture Quote #1

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As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate in the indolence Picture Quote #1

The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox Picture Quote #1

The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue Picture Quote #1

When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated Picture Quote #1

The acceptance of certain realities doesn’t preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs Picture Quote #1

That has been my entire life story. Running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated. The acceptance of certain realities doesn’t preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs Picture Quote #1

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Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t I c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise Picture Quote #1

In this branch of utopian real estate, architecture is no longer the art of designing buildings so much as the brutal skyward extrusion of whatever site the developer has managed to assemble Picture Quote #1

People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client’s needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and reinterpret it Picture Quote #1

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Nobody should be anything, but because I once had a different profession and I’m interested in writing, I took it upon me (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) Prada is extremely directed in terms of communicating what they like and what they don’t like. That is actually extremely pleasant because it clarifies very easily what you can do and what you need to do (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill (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) I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone elses hands (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate in the indolence (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) The acceptance of certain realities doesn’t preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs (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. The acceptance of certain realities doesn’t preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t I c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) In this branch of utopian real estate, architecture is no longer the art of designing buildings so much as the brutal skyward extrusion of whatever site the developer has managed to assemble (Rem Koolhaas Quotes) People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming (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) Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client’s needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and reinterpret it (Rem Koolhaas Quotes)

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