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Christianity, democracy, science, education, wealth, and the cumulative inheritance of a thousand years, have not preserved us from the vain repetition of history. Ralph Adams Cram
Education Democracy History Science Wealth Christianity Vain Preserved Thousand Thousand Years Years Cumulative Repetition Us Inheritance
If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter. Ralph Adams Cram
Life Nature Matter Care Men Society Back Our Philosophy Would Through Take Had Take Care Institutions Were Itself Full Measure Lived
In revolt against this new and very evil thing came the republicanism of the eighteenth century, inspired and directed in large measure by members of the fast perishing aristocracy of race, character and tradition. Ralph Adams Cram
Character Evil Members Directed Inspired Aristocracy New Came Tradition Very Revolt Eighteenth Eighteenth Century Against Republicanism Race Century Measure Large Large Measure Fast Thing
Through the wholesale destruction of the representatives of a class that from the beginning of history had been the directing and creative force in civilization, a process began which was almost mechanical. Ralph Adams Cram
History Class Creative Destruction Beginning Directing Civilization Through Had Almost Force Been Began Representatives Process Which Mechanical Wholesale
Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began. Ralph Adams Cram
Revolution Towards Began End Eighteenth Eighteenth Century Century
May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my fellow architects and for the public good. Ralph Thomas Walker
Life Service Good Knowledge Humble Book My Life Finally Say Has-Been Architects Through Open Open Book Fellow Am Been Years Very Contrary Quite May Public Grandeur Public Good Forty Forty Years Illusions
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
You have to accept as an architect to be exposed to criticism. Architecture should not rely on full harmony. Renzo Piano
You Architecture Criticism Harmony Architect Rely Accept Should Full Exposed
A museum is a place where one should lose one's head. Renzo Piano
Lose Head Where Place Should Museum
When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only the theoretical architect believes that you can make the concept and then sometime, somebody will come to build it. Renzo Piano
You Will Somebody Build Building Down Design Philosophy Detail Architect General Only Sometime Come Concept Make Up Then Theoretical Believes Start
Great American art needs the idea of uninterrupted spaces, like a loft, which itself is something very American. Renzo Piano
Art Great Needs Great American Loft Something Idea Like Itself Very American Spaces Which
As an architect, you cannot be so arrogant as to say you are 100% sure about what you do. Renzo Piano
You Arrogant Say About Architect Sure Cannot
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