Architecture Quote by Rem Koolhaas

Manhattan is so tailored. It's driven by appealing to the very wealthy and tourists.

— Noah Baumbach

Movement was the essence of Manhattan. It had always been so, and now its sense of flow, energy, openness, elasticity as Charles Dickens had…

— Jan Morris

Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.

— M.I.A

Living in areas with a high population density does not need to be synonymous with overcrowding. Manhattan has an extremely dense population and is…

— Mark Walport

The Grid makes the history of architecture and all previous lessons of urbanism irrelevant. It forces Manhattan's builders to develop a new system of…

— Rem Koolhaas

Manhattan has generated a shameless architecture that has been loved in direct proportion to its defiant lack of self-hatred, has been respected exactly to…

— Rem Koolhaas

I love Manhattan.

— Samantha Bond

Manhattan's always fascinating, too, just a big, stinky, smelly conglomeration of numbered avenues and streets, but it's just got a vibe that's hard to…

— Joe Elliott

People born in Queens, raised to say that each morning they get on the subway and "go to the city," have a resentment of…

— Jimmy Breslin

It's the city's crush and heave that move you; its intricacy; its endless life. You know the story about Manhattan as a wilderness purchased…

— Michael Cunningham

“In a New York where people are reconceived as consumers, not citizens, it is most profitable to keep everyone moving and disconnected. This is…

— Anonymous

New York... is a city of geometric heights, a petrified desert of grids and lattices, an inferno of greenish abstraction under a flat sky,…

— Roland Barthes