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Quote by Rem Koolhaas
Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things. – 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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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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The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture. – Ian Hamilton Finlay

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architecture

To provide meaningful architecture is not to parody history but to articulate it. – Daniel Libeskind

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architecture

Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle. – Oscar Niemeyer

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architecture

I try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. Thats art to me. – Maya Lin

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architecture

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Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. – Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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