Quote by Rem Koolhaas
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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It is not possible to live in this age if you dont have a sense of many contradictory forces. – Rem Koolhaas

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Age
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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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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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architecture
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Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. The client made me do this. The city made me do this. Oh, the budget. I dont believe that anymore. – Frank Gehry

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architecture

What has happened to architecture since the second world war that the only passers-by who can contemplate it without pain are those equipped with a white stick and a dog? – Bernard Levin

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architecture

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled. – John Ruskin

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architecture

I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away. – Helmut Jahn

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architecture

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Pray to God but continue to row to the shore. – Proverb

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Prayer

There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons. – Edwin Lutyens

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If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other persons point of view and see things from that persons angle as well as from your own. – Henry Ford

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All stories should have some honesty and truth in them, otherwise youre just playing about. – Nigel Kneale

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Truth