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Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years,

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discrepancy between the acceleration of culture and the continuing slowness of architecture. – Rem Koolhaas

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We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living. – Rem Koolhaas

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Beauty
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People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, thats both liberating and alarming. – Rem Koolhaas

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architecture
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Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning. – Rem Koolhaas

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architecture
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An architects most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site. – Frank Lloyd Wright

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In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture. – Alain Robert

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A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the real storyteller. – Curtis W. Fentress

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