Ornaments Quote by Rem Koolhaas Download Open image “Sustainability has become an ornament.” — Rem Koolhaas ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ornaments Sustainability
But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
With increasing fervor since the 1980s, sustainability has been the watchword of scientists, environmental activists, and indeed all those concerned about the complex, fragile… — Jamais Cascio Copy Share Image
Sustainability is now a big baggy sack in which people throw all kinds of old ideas, hot air and dodgy activities in order to… — Kevin McCloud Copy Share Image
It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival. — Cameron Sinclair Copy Share Image
I actually believe 'Sustainability ', as a concept, is one of the arteries leading to the heart of so many of our cultural transitions… — Brandon Boyd Copy Share Image
Sustainability is treating ourselves and our environment as if we are to live on this earth forever. — Arron Wood Copy Share Image
Sustainability can't be like some sort of a moral sacrifice or political dilemma or a philanthropical cause. It has to be a design challenge. — Bjarke Ingels Copy Share Image
“Sustainability is a new idea to many people, and many find it hard to understand. But all over the world there are people who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That has been another interesting discovery: that basically a city [Lagos] could recover from a really deep, deep, deep pit. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In a script, you have to link various episodes together, you have to generate suspense and you have to assemble things - through editing,… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
The beauty of my profession [architecture] lies in its randomness and surprise. And don't think I can choose my projects. I have to build… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
We discovered a person in Lagos who had a fish stall, and within a single square metre she carried two children all the way… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Nigeria [in 1990] was all rumour, an unbelievable amount of rumour - largely about crime and almost mythical manifestations of evil. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Let's put it this way: One can be happy or unhappy in a building. But some buildings make us more depressed than others. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Nigeria was a blank on the map - there weren't even any maps. The US State Department, everyone said don't go there. It was… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt. — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
Manhattan has no choice but the skyward extrusion of the Grid itself; only the Skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild… — Rem Koolhaas Copy Share Image
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mannerism is not character, and affectation is the avowed enemy of grace. Every dancer ought to regard his laborious art as a link in… — August Bournonville Copy Share Image
The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
No ornament of a house can compare with books; they are constant company in a room, even when you are not reading them. — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I never rebel so much against France as not to regard Paris with a friendly eye; she has had my heart since my childhood...… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Money can help you to get medicines but not health. Money can help you to get soft pillows, but not sound sleep. Money can… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
Christmas garland and a rock?" he said, a smile in his voice."Why not an ornament?" "Wolves aren't fragile," I told him. "And they're... stubbon… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
Truth is not only a man's ornament but his instrument; it is the great man's glory, and the poor man's stock: a man's truth… — Benjamin Whichcote Copy Share Image
A fine thought in fine language is a most precious jewel, and should not be hid away, but be exposed for use and ornament. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea. First, there is the bare beauty… — Gustav Stickley Copy Share Image
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