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title: "30 Architecture Quotes By Rem Koolhaas"
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> [There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/there-s-nothing-dutch-about-my-architecture/)

[Rem Koolhaas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rem-koolhaas/)

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> [“The cosmetic is cosmic.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/the-cosmetic-is-cosmic/)

[Rem Koolhaas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rem-koolhaas/)

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> [I wanted to disconnect from contemporary architecture](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/i-wanted-to-disconnect-from-contemporary-architecture/)

[Rem Koolhaas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rem-koolhaas/)

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> [Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/infrastructure-is-much-more-important-than-architecture/)

[Rem Koolhaas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rem-koolhaas/)

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> [Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/not-many-architects-have-the-luxury-to-reject-significant-things/)

[Rem Koolhaas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rem-koolhaas/)

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> [Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/architecture-is-a-dangerous-mix-of-power-and-importance/)

[Rem Koolhaas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rem-koolhaas/)

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> [Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/architecture-is-a-rare-collective-profession-it-s-always-exercised-by/)

[Rem Koolhaas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rem-koolhaas/)

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> [Manhattan has generated a shameless architecture that has been loved in direct proportion to its defiant lack of self-hatred, has been respected…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/manhattan-has-generated-a-shameless-architecture-that-has-been-loved/)

[Rem Koolhaas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rem-koolhaas/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/architecture-is-a-hazardous-mixture-of-omnipotence-and-impotence-it/)

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> [Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/any-architectural-project-we-do-takes-at-least-four-or-five-years-so/)

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> [Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/architects-work-in-two-ways-one-is-to-respond-precisely-to-a-client-s/)

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> [ The beauty of my profession \[architecture\] lies in its randomness and surprise. And don't think I can choose my projects. I have… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/the-beauty-of-my-profession-architecture-lies-in-its-randomness-and/)

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> [In this branch of utopian real estate, architecture is no longer the art of designing buildings so much as the brutal skyward…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/in-this-branch-of-utopian-real-estate-architecture-is-no-longer-the/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/as-an-architect-i-always-have-mixed-feelings-on-the-one-hand-your/)

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> [People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/people-can-inhabit-anything-and-they-can-be-miserable-in-anything-and/)

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> [In a script, you have to link various episodes together, you have to generate suspense and you have to assemble things -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/in-a-script-you-have-to-link-various-episodes-together-you-have-to/)

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> [There are essentially two possibilities. One is to be, shall we say, an average architect and do the same thing everywhere. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/there-are-essentially-two-possibilities-one-is-to-be-shall-we-say-an/)

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> [What is now called 'green architecture' is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/what-is-now-called-green-architecture-is-an-opportunistic-caricature/)

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> [Manhattanism is the one urbanistic ideology that has fed, from its conception, on the splendors and miseries of the metropolitan condition—hyper-density—without once…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/manhattanism-is-the-one-urbanistic-ideology-that-has-fed-from-its/)

[Rem Koolhaas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rem-koolhaas/)

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> [I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/i-d-say-that-my-profession-ends-where-architectural-thinking-ends/)

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> [The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/the-intellectual-force-of-the-west-is-still-dominant-but-other/)

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> [All important architecture of the last century was strongly influenced by political systems. Look at the Soviet system, with its constructivism and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/all-important-architecture-of-the-last-century-was-strongly/)

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> [I studied in London in 1968. Our school had a separate department of tropical architecture. Of course it was totally unfashionable, partly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/i-studied-in-london-in-1968-our-school-had-a-separate-department-of/)

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> [“Architecture is a fuzzy amalgamation of ancient knowledge and contemporary practice, an awkward way to look at the world and an inadequate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/architecture-is-a-fuzzy-amalgamation-of-ancient-knowledge-and/)

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> [The Grid makes the history of architecture and all previous lessons of urbanism irrelevant. It forces Manhattan's builders to develop a new…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/the-grid-makes-the-history-of-architecture-and-all-previous-lessons/)

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> [As more and more architecture is finally unmasked as the mere organization of flow—shopping centers, airports—it is evident that circulation is what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/as-more-and-more-architecture-is-finally-unmasked-as-the-mere/)

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> [The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/the-great-problem-of-the-concert-hall-is-that-the-shoebox-is-the/)

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> [The architecture per se isn't at fault. The more important factor, in my view, is the political neglect of these areas, which…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/the-architecture-per-se-isn-t-at-fault-the-more-important-factor-in/)

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> [Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/escape-from-the-architecture-ghetto-is-one-of-the-major-drivers-and/)

[Rem Koolhaas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rem-koolhaas/)

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> [ Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in \[in architecture\]. I think appropriateness is more important. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/beauty-isn-t-what-i-m-primarily-interested-in-in-architecture-i-think/)

[Rem Koolhaas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rem-koolhaas/)

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## More by Rem Koolhaas

> [ That has been another interesting discovery: that basically a city \[Lagos\] could recover from a really deep, deep, deep pit. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/that-has-been-another-interesting-discovery-that-basically-a-city/)

[Rem Koolhaas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rem-koolhaas/)

> [Manhattan has generated a shameless architecture that has been loved in direct proportion to its defiant lack of self-hatred, has been respected exactly to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/manhattan-has-generated-a-shameless-architecture-that-has-been-loved/)

[Rem Koolhaas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rem-koolhaas/)

> [In a script, you have to link various episodes together, you have to generate suspense and you have to assemble things - through editing,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/in-a-script-you-have-to-link-various-episodes-together-you-have-to/)

[Rem Koolhaas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rem-koolhaas/)

> [ The beauty of my profession \[architecture\] lies in its randomness and surprise. And don't think I can choose my projects. I have to build… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/the-beauty-of-my-profession-architecture-lies-in-its-randomness-and/)

[Rem Koolhaas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rem-koolhaas/)

> [Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/our-office-acts-like-a-kind-of-educational-establishment-and-we-are/)

[Rem Koolhaas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rem-koolhaas/)

> [We discovered a person in Lagos who had a fish stall, and within a single square metre she carried two children all the way…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/we-discovered-a-person-in-lagos-who-had-a-fish-stall-and-within-a/)

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> [ Nigeria \[in 1990\] was all rumour, an unbelievable amount of rumour - largely about crime and almost mythical manifestations of evil. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/nigeria-in-1990-was-all-rumour-an-unbelievable-amount-of-rumour/)

[Rem Koolhaas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rem-koolhaas/)

> [Let's put it this way: One can be happy or unhappy in a building. But some buildings make us more depressed than others.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/let-s-put-it-this-way-one-can-be-happy-or-unhappy-in-a-building-but/)

[Rem Koolhaas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rem-koolhaas/)

> [Nigeria was a blank on the map - there weren't even any maps. The US State Department, everyone said don't go there. It was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/nigeria-was-a-blank-on-the-map-there-weren-t-even-any-maps-the-us/)

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> [The City is an addictive machine from which there is no escape](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/the-city-is-an-addictive-machine-from-which-there-is-no-escape/)

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> [The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/the-work-in-s-m-l-xl-was-almost-suicidal-it-required-so-much-effort/)

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> [Manhattan has no choice but the skyward extrusion of the Grid itself; only the Skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/manhattan-has-no-choice-but-the-skyward-extrusion-of-the-grid-itself/)

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> [The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/the-stronger-the-identity-the-more-it-imprisons-the-more-it-resists/)

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> [Why I talked about political correctness: the colonial is now such a major taboo that any achievement of the colonial period, or any generosity…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/why-i-talked-about-political-correctness-the-colonial-is-now-such-a/)

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> [The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I record is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/the-thing-is-that-i-have-a-really-intense-almost-compulsive-need-to/)

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