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The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.
Rem Koolhaas
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Rem Koolhaas
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 1
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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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Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important.
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The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I record is somehow transformed into a creative thing. There is a continuity. Recording is the beginning of a conceptual production. I am somehow collapsing the two - recording and producing - into a single event.
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When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it has become utterly independent - contained, controlled, surveyed.
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We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.
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