Japan lives with drastic segregation between the sublime, the ugly, and the utterly without qualities. Dominance of the last 2 categories makes mere presence of the first stunning: when beauty 'happens', it is absolutely surprising.
Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance. - Rem Koolhaas
Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.
- Rem Koolhaas
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
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.
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 i… - Rem Koolhaas
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 i…
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 yours… - 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 yours…
Infrastructure is much more important than architecture. - Rem Koolhaas
Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.
Sustainability has become an ornament. - Rem Koolhaas
Sustainability has become an ornament.
The City is an addictive machine from which there is no escape - Rem Koolhaas
The City is an addictive machine from which there is no escape
The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction. - Rem Koolhaas
The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.
Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness and things get interesting. - Rem Koolhaas
Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness and things get interesting.
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