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title: "2 Contradictory Quotes By Rem Koolhaas"
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> [It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/it-is-not-possible-to-live-in-this-age-if-you-don-t-have-a-sense-of/)

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

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> [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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/each-building-has-to-be-beautiful-but-cheap-and-fast-but-it-lasts/)

[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/)

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

> [ 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/)

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

> [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/)

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

> [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/)

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

> [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/)

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

> [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/)

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

> [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/)

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

> [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/)

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

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