Author: 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.

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

The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt.

The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt.

- Rem Koolhaas

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

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

- Rem Koolhaas

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.

- Rem Koolhaas

Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.

Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.

- Rem Koolhaas

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.

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

That has been my entire life story, running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated.

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

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

- Rem Koolhaas

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.

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

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