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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
Acceleration
Any
Architectural
Architecture
Between
Continuing
Culture
Five
Four
Increasingly
Least
Project
Takes
Years
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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
About
Become
Category
Difficult
Getting
More
More And More
Now
Ornament
Political
Serious
Sustainability
Think
Way
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Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.
~ Rem Koolhaas
Because
Competitions
Designs
Feature
Green
Increasingly
Literally
Small
Somewhere
Windmill
Winning
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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
Battery
Beautiful
Building
Cheap
Contradictory
Definitely
Demands
Each
Fast
Forever
Incredible
Lasts
Operate
Perhaps
Person
Seemingly
Times
Very
Yes
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Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.
~ Rem Koolhaas
Architecture
Been
Beginning
Drivers
Escape
Ghetto
Has-Been
Major
Very
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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
Admit
Argue
Certain
Certain Things
Feel
I Think
Important
Instinctive
Intellectual
Justify
Kind
Level
Longer
More
Much
Need
Others
Rational
Really
Things
Think
Willing
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I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well.
~ Rem Koolhaas
About
Abstraction
Architectural
Defining
Disciplines
Ends
Many
Now
Organizational
Other
Play
Profession
Programs
Role
Say
Structure
Terms
Thinking
Those
Well
Where
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If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it.
~ Rem Koolhaas
Back
Endure
Reputation
Sit
Things
Try
You
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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
About
Deal
Else
Everyone
Hands
Ignore
Influence
Irresponsible
Maybe
Nightmare
Our
Really
Started
Subject
Think
Tie
Unpleasant
Very
Way
Which
Would
Would-Be
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It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.
~ Rem Koolhaas
Age
Contradictory
Forces
Live
Many
Possible
Sense
You
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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.
~ Rem Koolhaas
Beautiful
Because
Buildings
City
Coherent
More
Weather
Weird
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Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.
~ Rem Koolhaas
Architects
Luxury
Many
Reject
Significant
Things
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One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity.
~ Rem Koolhaas
Compulsion
Excessive
Offset
Our
Return
Simplicity
Spectacular
Theories
Toward
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Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate.
~ Rem Koolhaas
Acts
Careful
Educate
Educational
Establishment
Kind
Like
Office
Our
Very
Who
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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
Alarming
Anything
Architecture
Both
Course
Ecstatic
I Think
Inhabit
Liberating
Miserable
More
More And More
Nothing
People
Think
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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
Actually
Because
Communicating
Directed
Easily
Extremely
Like
Need
Pleasant
Terms
Very
You
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The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.
~ Rem Koolhaas
Area
Bubbles
Certainty
Consensus
Constantly
Exploding
Fast
Shift
Unbelievably
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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
Architect
Build
Concert
Concert Hall
Great
Hall
Ideal
Names
Problem
Shape
Wants
Worth
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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
Based
Cultures
Develop
Dominant
Expect
Force
Getting
Intellectual
Less
Models
New
New Way
Other
Our
Planning
Still
Stronger
Thinking
Urban
Way
West
Will
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The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue.
~ Rem Koolhaas
Address
Almost
Any
Assemble
Issue
Luxury
Now
Our
Position
Team
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BirthDate
17 November, 1944
Country
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