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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
Remment Koolhaas
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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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The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.
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But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament.
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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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Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important.
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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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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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Evil can also be beautiful. The Coliseum in Rome, for example, a wonderful structure with an awful past. Just think about the bloody gladiator fights there.
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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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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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You need to look at inequality as a typical condition of modern society.
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Sustainability has become an ornament.
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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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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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The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue.
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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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Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.
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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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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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