Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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There is no plateau of resting or stabilising. Once you are interested in how things evolve, you have a kind of never-ending perspective, because it means you are interested in articulating the evolution, and therefore the potential change, the potential redefinition.

Rem Koolhaas's Popular Quotes

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.

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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…

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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…

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Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.

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Sustainability has become an ornament.

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The City is an addictive machine from which there is no escape

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The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.

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Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness and things get interesting.

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