"We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living."
-Rem Koolhaas
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"It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.“
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"The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models."
-Rem Koolhaas
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"Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning."
-Rem Koolhaas
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"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."
-Rem Koolhaas
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"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."
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"Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things."
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"If there is anything I would do differently in my life, it is that I would study business more. I'm trying to teach my daughter Chloe at an early age about investing and money so she's not afraid of it."
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"What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine."
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"In a spiritually sensitive culture, then, it might well be that age is something to be admired or envied."
-Rowan D. Williams
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