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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
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
There is something about giving everything to your profession. In Italian, an obsession is not necessarily negative. It's the art of putting all your energy into one thing; it's the art of transforming even what you eat for lunch into architecture. Renzo Piano
Art You Architecture Negative Giving Energy Lunch Everything One Thing Eat About Something Putting Obsession Italian Transforming Your Profession Even Thing Necessarily
Your goal is to achieve the best results by following their wishes. If they want you to build a house upside down standing on its chimney, it's up to you to do it. Richard Morris Hunt
Best You Achieve Build Down Following Results Wishes House Goal Up Want Upside Upside Down Chimney Your Standing
The first thing you've got to remember is that it's your clients' money you're spending. Richard Morris Hunt
You Money Remember First Spending First Thing Clients Got The First Thing Your Thing
If you live in a squalid environment, then of course you are going to want to get out of it, you are probably going to want to get into the country, because that's what it does. Richard Rogers
You Country Live Out Environment Course Because Does Get Going Want Then
Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower. Richard Rogers
Business Architecture Slow City Slower Planning Even
Architecture is measured against the past; you build in the future, and you try to imagine the future. Richard Rogers
Future You Architecture Try Build Past Against Measured Imagine
I believe very much in a dialogue between buildings - I believe it's always been there. I think buildings have different identities and live very well next to each other. We always have the shock of the new, and that's fine. The renaissance style is totally different from the medieval, and they have a dialogue across time. Richard Rogers
Time Style Live Believe Think Other Fine Totally Between New Renaissance Identities Well Buildings Always Dialogue Been Very Shock Different Much Next Across Each Medieval
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