“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.” WayNeedsLooksTwoAsksDemandArchitectClientsTwo Ways Author:Rem Koolhaas
“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.” HumansFeelingsHandsHuman BeingsFingersArchitectIndolenceItchingMixed Feelings Author:Rem Koolhaas
“The word 'celebrity' and the word 'architect' are basically incompatible.” Architect Author:Rem Koolhaas
“In a script, you have to link various episodes together, you have to generate suspense and you have to assemble things - through editing, for example. It's exactly the same in architecture. Architects also put together spatial episodes to make sequences.” TogetherExampleScriptsVariousArchitectureSuspenseLinksArchitectEpisodesEditingSequenceSpatial Author:Rem Koolhaas
“There are essentially two possibilities. One is to be, shall we say, an average architect and do the same thing everywhere. The other is to let yourself be inspired and even changed by the unique qualities of the place where you're building. We always try to take the second approach.” TryingTwoQualityPossibilityChangedBuildingApproachUniqueInspiredAverageArchitectBe Inspired Author: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.” WantProblemNamesShapesIdealsHallsConcertsArchitectAcoustics Author:Rem Koolhaas
“Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.” ArchitectureSignificantLuxuryRejectsArchitectSignificant Things Author:Rem Koolhaas
