Rem Koolhaas Quotes

People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More an...

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

What is now called 'green architecture' is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideratio...

Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewher...

We felt it was very important for an entity like CCTV to make its presence felt... To generate a spa...

Any architectural project we do takes at least four or five years, so increasingly there is a discre...

Asia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it will become a declining ...

There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.

The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I exp...

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

Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.

Architecture is a rare collective profession: it's always exercised by groups. There is an essential...