“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.” TwoBuildingMakersTwo Lives Author:Rem Koolhaas
“One cannot completely avoid this landmark character with large buildings such as these. But the city itself is also gigantic.” CharacterCitiesBuildingLandmarks 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
“Let's put it this way: One can be happy or unhappy in a building. But some buildings make us more depressed than others.” WayBuildingUnhappy Author:Rem Koolhaas
“Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I'm definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times.” PersonsLastsBeautifulForeverBuildingDemandIncrediblesContradictoryBatteries Author:Rem Koolhaas
“In this branch of utopian real estate, architecture is no longer the art of designing buildings so much as the brutal skyward extrusion of whatever site the developer has managed to assemble.” ArtRealDesignBuildingArchitectureBranchesBrutalSiteEstatesUtopianDevelopers Author:Rem Koolhaas
“The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue.” IssuesTeamPositionBuildingLuxuryAddressesTeam Building Author:Rem Koolhaas
