Rem Koolhaas Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.”

“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.”

“If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it.”

“What is now called 'green architecture' is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It was one of the first professions that was deeply concerned with these issues and that had an intellectual response to them.”

“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.”

“We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.”

“Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star.”

“It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.”

“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.”

“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.”