Rem Koolhaas Quotes

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• 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
• The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt. Almost Suicidal
• The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue. Address
• Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate. Acts
• I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies. Bad
• I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play… Abstraction
• Prada is extremely directed in terms of communicating what they like and what they don't like. That is actually extremely pleasant because it clarifies very… Actually Extremely
• 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 somehow… Almost Compulsive
• 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… Batteries
• I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind… Admit
• People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to… Alarming
• Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill. Competition
• Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning. Architecture
• The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding. Areas
• We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency. Almost Perfect
• Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the… Acceleration

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