“Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.” ImportantArchitectureInfrastructure Author:Rem Koolhaas
“Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important.” ThinkingImportantArchitectureAppropriateness Author:Rem Koolhaas
“All important architecture of the last century was strongly influenced by political systems. Look at the Soviet system, with its constructivism and Stalinism, Weimer with its Modern style, Mussolini and, of course, the Nazis and Albert Speer's colossal structures. Today's architecture is subservient to the market and its terms. The market has supplanted ideology. Architecture has turned into a spectacle. It has to package itself and no longer has significance as anything but a landmark.” LooksImportantTodayLastsPoliticalTermModernCenturyStyleStructureArchitectureIdeologySignificanceSovietNaziPackagesPolitical SystemsColossalLandmarksSubservientStalinismConstructivism Author:Rem Koolhaas
“The architecture per se isn't at fault. The more important factor, in my view, is the political neglect of these areas, which have essentially been cut off from other neighborhoods.” ImportantPoliticalViewsCuttingAreasFaultsArchitectureFactorsNeighborhoodNeglect Author:Rem Koolhaas
“I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual.” ThinkingNeedsFeelsKindImportantCertainLevelsWillingEvolutionIntellectualArguingRationalJustify Author:Rem Koolhaas
