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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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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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The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models. – 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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The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning. – Arthur Erickson

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Architecture cant fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isnt real. – Frank Stella

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The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if its a true story. – Joel Coen

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