Acceleration Quote by Rem Koolhaas

“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 continuing slowness of architecture.”

Rem Koolhaas

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Acceleration Architecture Continuing Culture Discrepancies Five Five years Four Projects Years

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