---
title: "2 Correctness Quotes By Rem Koolhaas"
description: "2 Correctness quotes by Rem Koolhaas. Plus more from Rem Koolhaas and more Correctness sayings from other authors."
image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89c/rem-koolhaas-5371_achievement_why-i-talked-about-political-correctness_565618.jpg"
---

> [Why I talked about political correctness: the colonial is now such a major taboo that any achievement of the colonial period, or any generosity implied in colonialism, is again fundamentally neglected or fundamentally not recognised. That's crazy, because history is…](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/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89c/rem-koolhaas-5371_achievement_why-i-talked-about-political-correctness_565618.jpg)

> [ It was a book \[George Packer written on our presence in Nigeria\] that was killed by the response of other people. Which sounds quite cowardly, perhaps, but it was the first manifestation of what is currently a really big issue:… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/it-was-a-book-george-packer-written-on-our-presence-in-nigeria-that/)

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

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff5/rem-koolhaas-5371_africa_it-was-a-book-george-packer-written-on-o_3159314.jpg)

## Other authors on Correctness

## 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/)

```json
{
    "@context": "https://schema.org",
    "@graph": [
        {
            "@type": "ItemList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/correctness/rem-koolhaas/#itemlist",
            "name": "2 Correctness Quotes By Rem Koolhaas",
            "numberOfItems": 2,
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "Why I talked about political correctness: the colonial is now such a major taboo that any achievement of the colonial period, or any generosity implied in colonialism, is again fundamentally neglected or fundamentally not recognised. That's crazy, because history is a series of layers, and you cannot say, \"This layer I support and this layer I cancel.\" History is history and you cannot retrospectively manipulate it.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Rem Koolhaas"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/why-i-talked-about-political-correctness-the-colonial-is-now-such-a/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89c/rem-koolhaas-5371_achievement_why-i-talked-about-political-correctness_565618.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89c/rem-koolhaas-5371_achievement_why-i-talked-about-political-correctness_565618.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89c/rem-koolhaas-5371_achievement_why-i-talked-about-political-correctness_565618.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“Why I talked about political correctness: the colonial is now such a major taboo that any achievement of the…” — Rem Koolhaas",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "item": {
                        "@type": "Quotation",
                        "text": "It was a book [George Packer written on our presence in Nigeria] that was killed by the response of other people. Which sounds quite cowardly, perhaps, but it was the first manifestation of what is currently a really big issue: how political correctness defines the limits of what you can do. In that sense, it was super-exciting and maybe the most magical project we did, but at the same time fraught with mixed feelings.",
                        "creator": {
                            "@type": "Person",
                            "name": "Rem Koolhaas"
                        },
                        "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rem-koolhaas/it-was-a-book-george-packer-written-on-our-presence-in-nigeria-that/",
                        "image": {
                            "@type": "ImageObject",
                            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff5/rem-koolhaas-5371_africa_it-was-a-book-george-packer-written-on-o_3159314.jpg",
                            "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff5/rem-koolhaas-5371_africa_it-was-a-book-george-packer-written-on-o_3159314.jpg",
                            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ff5/rem-koolhaas-5371_africa_it-was-a-book-george-packer-written-on-o_3159314.jpg",
                            "width": 1080,
                            "height": 1080,
                            "caption": "“It was a book [George Packer written on our presence in Nigeria] that was killed by the response of other…” — Rem Koolhaas",
                            "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
                            "creator": {
                                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "CollectionPage",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/correctness/rem-koolhaas/#webpage",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/correctness/rem-koolhaas/",
            "name": "Correctness Quotes by Rem Koolhaas",
            "isPartOf": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website"
            },
            "mainEntity": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/correctness/rem-koolhaas/#itemlist"
            },
            "primaryImageOfPage": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89c/rem-koolhaas-5371_achievement_why-i-talked-about-political-correctness_565618.jpg"
            },
            "description": "2 Correctness quotes by Rem Koolhaas. Plus more from Rem Koolhaas and more Correctness sayings from other authors.",
            "breadcrumb": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/correctness/rem-koolhaas/#breadcrumb"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/correctness/rem-koolhaas/#breadcrumb",
            "itemListElement": [
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 1,
                    "name": "Home",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 2,
                    "name": "Quotes",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 3,
                    "name": "Topics",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/categories/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 4,
                    "name": "Correctness",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/correctness/"
                },
                {
                    "@type": "ListItem",
                    "position": 5,
                    "name": "Rem Koolhaas",
                    "item": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/correctness/rem-koolhaas/"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "@type": "WebSite",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#website",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "publisher": {
                "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization"
            }
        },
        {
            "@type": "Organization",
            "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization",
            "name": "SMS4Smile Quotes",
            "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/",
            "logo": {
                "@type": "ImageObject",
                "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/themes/sq/assets/icons/icon-512.png",
                "width": 512,
                "height": 512
            }
        }
    ]
}
```