Quote by Rem Koolhaas
We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. A

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

Other quotes by Rem Koolhaas

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

Category:
architecture
Read Quote

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

Category:
architecture
Read Quote

Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning. – Rem Koolhaas

Category:
architecture
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Beauty
category

No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face. – John Donne

Category:
Beauty

We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined – the impression was overwhelming. – Howard Carter

Category:
Beauty

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love. – Khalil Gibran

Category:
Beauty

Beauty cant amuse you, but brainwork – reading, writing, thinking – can. – Helen Gurley Brown

Category:
Beauty

Random Quotes

The Nobel Prize is an honor unique in the world in having found its way into the hearts and minds of simple people everywhere. It casts a light of peace and reason upon us all and for that I am especially grateful. – George Wald

Category:
Peace

Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive. – E. O. Wilson

Category:
Religion

What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, I bet that my Redeemer liveth. – Samuel Butler

Category:
Faith

We can make inspired guesses, but we don – Isaac Asimov

Category:
Creation