The beauty of my profession [architecture] lies in its randomness and surprise. And don't think I can choose my projects. I have… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
We know that Las Vegas is junk, but at the same time I think that exactly the same process and ultimately also,… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Evil can also be beautiful. The Coliseum in Rome, for example, a wonderful structure with an awful past. Just think about the… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure.… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
I studied in London in 1968. Our school had a separate department of tropical architecture. Of course it was totally unfashionable, partly… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it.… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Miami Beach is a completely interesting hybrid because it is, on the one hand, a resort and, on the other hand, a… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
That has been another interesting discovery: that basically a city [Lagos] could recover from a really deep, deep, deep pit. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
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… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
In a script, you have to link various episodes together, you have to generate suspense and you have to assemble things - through editing,… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
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… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
We discovered a person in Lagos who had a fish stall, and within a single square metre she carried two children all the way… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Nigeria [in 1990] was all rumour, an unbelievable amount of rumour - largely about crime and almost mythical manifestations of evil. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Let's put it this way: One can be happy or unhappy in a building. But some buildings make us more depressed than others. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
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… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
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… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
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