All Rem Koolhaas Quotes
- 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
- But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has… Categories
- A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never… Afterward
- Infrastructure is much more important than architecture. Architecture
- Asia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it will become a declining trend. They were almost never necessary. Almost Never
- Journalists seem mostly interested in what brand of shoes I wear. Brand
- That has been my entire life story, running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated. Been
- As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate… Architect
- Miami Beach is a completely interesting hybrid because it is, on the one hand, a resort and, on the other hand, a real city. This… Amazing
- The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of… Architecture
- One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity. Compulsion