Appropriateness Quote by Rem Koolhaas

“Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important.” quote by Rem Koolhaas — Download Open image

“Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important.”

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Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate.

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Nigeria [in 1990] was all rumour, an unbelievable amount of rumour - largely about crime and almost mythical manifestations of evil.

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Let's put it this way: One can be happy or unhappy in a building. But some buildings make us more depressed than others.

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The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt.

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“My dear friend, clear your mind of cant [excessive thought]. You may talk as other people do: you may say to a man, "Sir, I am your most humble servant." You are not his most humble servant. You may say, "These are bad times; it is a melancholy thing to be reserved to such times." You don't mind the times…

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[Children] receive direct instruction from time to time about the appropriateness of various social comparisons

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A good surgeon doesn't just concentrate on technical ability, but also on the appropriateness of what you're doing.

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The event is not what you should be working on. You should be working on your response or reaction to an event. You either react to it - that means you become victimized, and you say this thing is happening to you - or you respond to it and say the solution must come through you - that's where you…

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The first principle of architectural beauty is that the essential lines of a construction be determined by a perfect appropriateness to its use.

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There is no constitutional or legal requirement that the President shall take the oath of office in the presence of the People but there is so manifest an appropriateness in the public induction to office of the chief executive officer of the nation that from the beginning of the Government the people to whose service the official oath consecrates the…

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I do object to the assumption that anything that might be outside of nature is ruled out of the conversation. That's an impoverished view of the kinds of questions we humans can ask, such as "Why am I here?", "What happens after we die?", "Is there a God?" If you refuse to acknowledge their appropriateness, you end up with a…

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Rather than me sort of characterize the appropriateness or inappropriateness of what Donald Trump is doing at the moment, I think what we have…

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When the words are fuzzy, the programmers reflexively retreat to the most precise method of articulation available: source code. Although there is nothing more precise than code, there is also nothing more permanent or resistant to change. So the situation frequently crops up where nomenclature confusion drives programmers to begin coding prematurely, and that code becomes the de facto design,…

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