People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and…

“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, that's both liberating and alarming.”

Rem Koolhaas · Architecture

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Rem Koolhaas

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

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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.

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Rem Koolhaas

It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.

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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.

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