Author: Rem Koolhaas

Quotes

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

There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.

There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.

- Rem Koolhaas

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

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

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

- 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

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

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

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

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

- Rem Koolhaas

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