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The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I record is somehow transformed into a creative thing. There is a continuity. Recording is the beginning of a conceptual production. I am somehow collapsing the two - recording and producing - into a single event.
~ Rem Koolhaas
Almost
Am
Because
Beginning
Collapsing
Compulsive
Conceptual
Continuity
Creative
End
Event
I Am
Intense
Need
Producing
Production
Really
Record
Recording
Single
Somehow
Thing
Transformed
Two
design
copy
The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt.
~ Rem Koolhaas
Almost
Bankrupt
Effort
Much
Office
Our
Required
Suicidal
Work
design
copy
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.
~ Rem Koolhaas
Define
Entity
Felt
Generate
Important
Like
Main
Main Thing
Make
Presence
Space
Thing
Very
design
copy
We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.
~ Rem Koolhaas
Almost
Incredible
Live
Perfect
Stillness
Urgency
Work
design
copy
We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.
~ Rem Koolhaas
Beauty
Best
Cities
Context
Create
Desired
Identity
Living
Maybe
Provides
Quality
Say
Singularity
Truth
Very
Want
design
copy
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
Advertising
Air
Air Conditioning
Almost
Also
Appeared
Became
Been
Conditioning
Had
Limited
Manipulated
More
Most
Much
Once
Predictable
Scale
Scientific
Shopping
Spontaneity
Surprising
design
copy
When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it has become utterly independent - contained, controlled, surveyed.
~ Rem Koolhaas
Also
Become
Connected
Contained
Controlled
Independent
Now
Shopping
Still
Street
Utterly
design
copy
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
Afterwards
Building
Imagined
Least
Life
Lives
Maker
Never
Same
Two
design
copy
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.
~ Rem Koolhaas
Another
Architects
Ask
Client
Demands
Look
Needs
Precisely
Respond
Two
Ways
Work
design
copy
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.
~ Rem Koolhaas
Always
Architecture
Collective
Complete
Contradiction
Essential
Groups
Modesty
Notion
Profession
Rare
Star
Which
design
copy
As an architect, I always have mixed feelings. On the one hand, your fingers are itching. As a human being, you are happy to participate in the indolence.
~ Rem Koolhaas
Always
Architect
Being
Feelings
Fingers
Hand
Happy
Human
Human Being
Indolence
Mixed
Mixed Feelings
Participate
You
Your
design
copy
Asia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it will become a declining trend. They were almost never necessary.
~ Rem Koolhaas
Almost
Asia
Become
Cities
Declining
Dominated
European
Hope
I Hope That
Necessary
Never
Skyscrapers
Still
Trend
Were
Will
design
copy
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
About
Am
Bad
Enough
Future
I Am
Incredibly
Intuition
Listen
Observe
Only
Predicting
Present
Smart
Tendencies
design
copy
Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.
~ Rem Koolhaas
Architecture
Important
Infrastructure
More
Much
Than
design
copy
Journalists seem mostly interested in what brand of shoes I wear.
~ Rem Koolhaas
Brand
Interested
Journalists
Mostly
Seem
Shoes
Wear
design
copy
Miami Beach is a completely interesting hybrid because it is, on the one hand, a resort and, on the other hand, a real city. This condition of city and water on two sides I think is really amazing. And in the heart of that city, it has put an enormous convention center, an enormous physical presence.
~ Rem Koolhaas
Amazing
Beach
Because
Center
City
Condition
Convention
Enormous
Hand
Heart
Hybrid
I Think
Interesting
Miami
Other
Physical
Presence
Put
Real
Really
Resort
Sides
Think
Two
Water
design
copy
Nobody should be anything, but because I once had a different profession and I'm interested in writing, I took it upon me.
~ Rem Koolhaas
Anything
Because
Different
Had
Interested
Me
Nobody
Once
Profession
Should
Took
Writing
design
copy
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
Against
Been
Current
Entire
Entire Life
Has-Been
Life
Life Story
Running
Sometimes
Story
Underestimated
design
copy
The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.
~ Rem Koolhaas
Acceptance
Breakthroughs
Certain
Idealism
Lead
Realities
design
copy
The word 'celebrity' and the word 'architect' are basically incompatible.
~ Rem Koolhaas
Architect
Basically
Celebrity
Incompatible
Word
design
copy
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BirthDate
17 November, 1944
Country
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