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The word 'celebrity' and the word 'architect' are basically incompatible.

Rem Koolhaas

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Rem Koolhaas
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 1
Architect
Urban Planner
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Remment Lucas Koolhaas
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Asia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it will become a declining trend. They were almost never necessary.
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That has been my entire life story. Running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated. The acceptance of certain realities doesn’t preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.
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Journalists seem mostly interested in what brand of shoes I wear.
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The Metropolis strives to reach a mythical point where the world is completely fabricated by man, so that it absolutely coincides with his desires.
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As more and more architecture is finally unmasked as the mere organization of flow - shopping centers, airports - it is evident that circulation is what makes or breaks public architecture.
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The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.
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Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.
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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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Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.
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Prada is extremely directed in terms of communicating what they like and what they don't like. That is actually extremely pleasant because it clarifies very easily what you can do and what you need to do.
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Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate.
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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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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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