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Rem Koolhaas
Rem Koolhaas
Dutch Architect
Born: Nov 17, 1944
About Almost Architecture Because Think You
Related authors: Antoni Gaudi Frank Gehry Frank Lloyd Wright Louis Kahn Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Maya Lin Walter Gropius Zaha Hadid
The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs. Rem Koolhaas
Acceptance Lead Idealism Breakthroughs Realities Certain
Asia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it will become a declining trend. They were almost never necessary. Rem Koolhaas
Hope Trend Will Become Cities Never Almost Still Were Dominated Asia Declining European Skyscrapers Necessary
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. Rem Koolhaas
Work Needs Ways Respond Architects Demands Look Another Client Precisely Ask Two
Infrastructure is much more important than architecture. Rem Koolhaas
Architecture Important More Than Infrastructure Much
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
People Architecture Miserable Nothing Think Liberating More More And More Both Ecstatic Course Anything Inhabit Alarming
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
Architecture Will Stronger Thinking Other Our Way Develop New Force Still West Intellectual Cultures Dominant Expect Models New Way Getting Urban Planning Less Based
We felt it was very important for an entity like CCTV to make its presence felt... To generate a space and to define a space, that is the main thing. Rem Koolhaas
Space Important Define Entity Main Generate Main Thing Like Make Felt Very Thing Presence
I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual. Rem Koolhaas
Important Think Others Kind Willing Admit More Rational Argue Feel Instinctive Longer Intellectual Justify Much Really Certain Certain Things Level Things Need
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. Rem Koolhaas
Culture Architecture Increasingly Project Slowness Architectural Takes Between Acceleration Least Continuing Years Discrepancy Five Any Four
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. Rem Koolhaas
Political Become Difficult Think Way About More More And More Category Getting Sustainability Serious Now Ornament
Journalists seem mostly interested in what brand of shoes I wear. Rem Koolhaas
Shoes Wear Seem Journalists Mostly Brand Interested
Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone else's hands. Rem Koolhaas
Think Else Everyone Our Way Would Would-Be Unpleasant About Tie Deal Subject Very Hands Maybe Irresponsible Influence Which Really Ignore Started Nightmare
The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding. Rem Koolhaas
Constantly Unbelievably Area Bubbles Shift Exploding Certainty Fast Consensus
The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue. Rem Koolhaas
Luxury Our Address Almost Issue Any Team Assemble Now Position
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. Rem Koolhaas
Great Problem Worth Build Architect Shape Ideal Names Concert Concert Hall Hall Wants Acoustics
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. Rem Koolhaas
Shopping Air Air Conditioning Once Scale More Had Almost Spontaneity Most Also Advertising Became Scientific Limited Been Surprising Conditioning Predictable Manipulated Much Appeared
Prada is extremely directed in terms of communicating what they like and what they don't like. That is actually extremely pleasant because it clarifies very easily what you can do and what you need to do. Rem Koolhaas
You Pleasant Extremely Easily Directed Like Terms Because Very Communicating Actually Need
Miami Beach is a completely interesting hybrid because it is, on the one hand, a resort and, on the other hand, a real city. This condition of city and water on two sides I think is really amazing. And in the heart of that city, it has put an enormous convention center, an enormous physical presence. Rem Koolhaas
Heart Water Amazing Think Enormous Other Resort Sides City Physical Beach Hybrid Put Because Real Condition Hand Miami Convention Center Interesting Really Presence Two

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