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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.
Rem Koolhaas
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Rem Koolhaas
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: January 1
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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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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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