Rem Koolhaas Quotes & Sayings

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42 most famous Rem Koolhaas quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for him. He's a 79 year old Dutch architect born on Nov 17, 1944.

“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.”
“Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times.”
Rem Koolhaas Quotes
“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 Quotes
“I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies.”
Rem Koolhaas Quotes
“The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.”
Rem Koolhaas Quotes
“That has been my entire life story, running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated.”
Rem Koolhaas Quotes
“Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.”
Rem Koolhaas Quotes
“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.”
Rem Koolhaas Quotes
“Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.”
Rem Koolhaas Quotes
“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.”

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