Rem Koolhaas Quotes
Top 45 wise famous quotes and sayings by Rem Koolhaas
Rem Koolhaas Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Our society can no longer tolerate ugliness. You see that in cars, sofas and women. [But] ugliness also has a right to exist.
One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity.
Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important.
Nigeria [in 1990] was all rumour, an unbelievable amount of rumour - largely about crime and almost mythical manifestations of evil.
Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.
A building has at least two lives - the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward - and they are never the same.
One cannot completely avoid this landmark character with large buildings such as these. But the city itself is also gigantic.
The Metropolis strives to reach a mythical point where the world is completely fabricated by man, so that it absolutely coincides with his desires.
Asia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it will become a declining trend. They were almost never necessary.
It's a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And the uglier the buildings, the more coherent the city.
The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.
Lagos was not very inviting even to Lagosians. It was considered a no-go zone, almost in its entirety.
I like fashion, whether or not it's overpriced, because it creates a sense of the sublime with relatively few means.
That has been another interesting discovery: that basically a city [Lagos] could recover from a really deep, deep, deep pit.
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.
The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt.
The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.
Let's put it this way: One can be happy or unhappy in a building. But some buildings make us more depressed than others.
I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies.
Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.