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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

Other quotes by Rem Koolhaas

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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Rem Koolhaas
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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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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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Rem Koolhaas
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The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish. – Federico Garcia Lorca

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architecture

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it. – John Ruskin

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architecture

There is a lot of interest in the arts, music, theatre, filmmaking, engineering, architecture and software design. I think we have now transitioned the modern-day version of the entrepreneur into the creative economy. – John Baldacci

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architecture

Im drawn to furniture design as complete architecture on a minor scale. – Brad Pitt

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architecture

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If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in the end, for the world is round and will lead you back to your door. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Love is based on imagination. – Olivier Martinez

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All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk. – Ronald Reagan

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