Public Architecture Quotes by Rem Koolhaas

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Rem Koolhaas has 53 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.
• Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.
• That has been my entire life story. Running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is…
• The City is an addictive machine from which there is no escape
• Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a…
• The Metropolis strives to reach a mythical point where the world is completely fabricated by man, so that it absolutely coincides with…
• Find optimism in the inevitable
• 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…
• In the end, there will be little else for us to do but shop.
• There is no plateau of resting or stabilising. Once you are interested in how things evolve, you have a kind of never-ending…
• The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth…
• If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it.

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