Rem Koolhaas best Design Quotes – “Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.”
Rem Koolhaas best Beauty Quotes – “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 best Architecture Quotes – “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 best Architecture Quotes – “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 best Architecture Quotes – “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 best Architecture Quotes – “There’s nothing Dutch about my architecture.”
Rem Koolhaas best Architecture Quotes – “Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.”
Rem Koolhaas best Architecture Quotes – “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 best Architecture Quotes – “Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.”
Rem Koolhaas best Architecture Quotes – “What is now called ‘green architecture’ is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It was one of the first professions that was deeply concerned with these issues and that had an intellectual response to them.”
Rem Koolhaas best Architecture Quotes – “Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.”
Rem Koolhaas best Amazing Quotes – “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.”