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There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.
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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Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.
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Nigeria [in 1990] was all rumour, an unbelievable amount of rumour - largely about crime and almost mythical manifestations of evil.
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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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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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That has been another interesting discovery: that basically a city [Lagos] could recover from a really deep, deep, deep pit.
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Manhattan has no choice but the skyward extrusion of the Grid itself only the Skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.
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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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Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.
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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 great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox.
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Journalists seem mostly interested in what brand of shoes I wear.
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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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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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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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Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.
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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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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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Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.
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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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Manhattan has generated a shameless architecture that has been loved in direct proportion to its defiant lack of self-hatred, has been respected exactly to the degree that it went too far.
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