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Rem Koolhaas
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Rem Koolhaas
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 1
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Urban Planner
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Remment Lucas Koolhaas
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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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I am incredibly bad at predicting the future I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies.
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Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.
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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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The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.
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Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.
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One cannot completely avoid this landmark character with large buildings such as these. But the city itself is also gigantic.
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I like fashion, whether or not it's overpriced, because it creates a sense of the sublime with relatively few means.
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In Lagos there's a really strong case to resurrect strong parts. Embedded in all of it are some amazing pieces of planning, amazing pieces of engineering and interaction. For instance, the campus of Lagos University is stunningly beautiful, efficient and generous, and that needs to be recognised and preserved.
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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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The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue.
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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 what's offered to me.
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We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.
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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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If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it.
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There is no plateau of resting or stabilising. Once you are interested in how things evolve, you have a kind of never-ending perspective, because it means you are interested in articulating the evolution, and therefore the potential change, the potential redefinition.
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