All Rem Koolhaas Quotes
- The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs. Acceptance
- Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance. Architecture
- 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… Acceptance
- The City is an addictive machine from which there is no escape Addictive
- 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… Architecture
- The Metropolis strives to reach a mythical point where the world is completely fabricated by man, so that it absolutely coincides with his desires. Absolutely
- Find optimism in the inevitable Find
- 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 losing faith in… Architecture
- In the end, there will be little else for us to do but shop. End
- There is no plateau of resting or stabilising. Once you are interested in how things evolve, you have a kind of never-ending perspective, because it… Articulating
- 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… Acoustics
- If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it. Endure
- 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… Deal
- 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… Beauty
- 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… Advertising
- When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it has become utterly independent -… Articulation
- Japan lives with drastic segregation between the sublime, the ugly, and the utterly without qualities. Dominance of the last 2 categories makes mere presence of… Absolutely
- As more and more architecture is finally unmasked as the mere organization of flow—shopping centers, airports—it is evident that circulation is what makes or breaks… Airports
- 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… Architecture
- Without a tighter union, Europe will disintegrate Disintegrate
- Manhattan is an accumulation of possible disasters that never happen. Accumulation
- The good is not a category that interests me. Categories
- It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces. Age
- Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things. Architect
- I wanted to disconnect from contemporary architecture Architecture