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

Other quotes by Rem Koolhaas

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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architecture
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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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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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In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, high-tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit — if totally different in form — from all the romantic architecture of the past. – Dan Cruickshank

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It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect. – John Ruskin

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architecture

Technological considerations are of great importance to architecture and cities in the informational society. – Kenzo Tange

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Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architects task therefore, is to make those sentiments more precise. – Adolf Loos

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