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In this branch of utopian real estate, architecture is no longer the art of designing buildings so much as the brutal skyward extrusion of whatever site the developer has managed to assemble.
Rem Koolhaas
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Rem Koolhaas
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 1
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