« All Architecture Quotes · Rem Koolhaas's Page
Architecture Quotes by Rem Koolhaas
- Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.
- I wanted to disconnect from contemporary architecture
- 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…
- 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…
- Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.
- 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…
- Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.
- 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…
More Architecture Quotes
- I don't divide architecture, landscape and gardening; to me they are one. — Luis Barragan
- My house is my refuge, an emotional piece of architecture, not a cold piece of convenience. — Luis Barragan
- Architect. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money. — Ambrose Bierce
- No heirloom of humankind captures the past as do art and language. — Theodore Bikel
- Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a… — Alvar Aalto
- We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the… — Alvar Aalto
- A picture is worth a thousand words. — Napoleon Bonaparte
- Nothing is as dangerous in architecture as dealing with separated problems. If we split life into separated problems we split the possibilities… — Alvar Aalto
- Architecture is inhabited sculpture. — Constantin Brancusi
- The ultimate goal of the architect...is to create a paradise. Every house, every product of architecture... should be a fruit of our… — Alvar Aalto
- I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert… — Dan Brown
- Washington, D.C., has everything that Rome, Paris and London have in the way of great architecture - great power bases. Washington has… — Dan Brown