Author: Rem Koolhaas

Quotes

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

Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.

Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.

- 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

Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.

Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.

- Rem Koolhaas

There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.

There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.

- 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

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

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

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