Quotes by Rem Koolhaas

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there...

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

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The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort...

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The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to...

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The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape...

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The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.

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Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who...

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Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

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It's a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And...

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Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible...

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If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can...

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I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the...

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