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Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate.
Rem Koolhaas
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Rem Koolhaas
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 1
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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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Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times.
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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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When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated.
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Lagos was the ultimate dysfunctional city - but actually, in terms of all the initiatives and ingenuity, it mobilised an incredibly beautiful, almost utopian landscape of independence and agency.
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A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.
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Architecture is a hazardous mixture of omnipotence and impotence. It is by definition a c h a o t i c a d v e n t u r e... In other words, the utopian enterprise.
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