"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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"Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.“
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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."
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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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"It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces."
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"Revived in this country the long forgotten beauties of Gothic architecture."
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"First, there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament, but are clearly revealed, a charm felt in Japanese architecture."
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