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Rem Koolhaas Quotes

Dutch - Architect | November 17, 1944 -

Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.

Architecture Important More Than

The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

Acceptance Lead Idealism Certain

People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming.

Architecture People Think Nothing

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.

Advertising Shopping More Air Been

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

Live Age You Possible Sense Forces

Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and reinterpret it.

Work Look Two Respond Client Needs

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.

Life Building Never Two Same Least

The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.

Fast Certainty Bubbles Consensus

We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.

Work Live Stillness Perfect Urgency

That has been my entire life story, running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated.

Life Story Life Story Sometimes Been

Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.

Green Winning Small Design Somewhere

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture.

Culture Architecture Project Years

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