Rem Koolhaas

The cosmetic is cosmic. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#junkspace #architecture

Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#competitions #designs #feature #green #increasingly

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

— Rem Koolhaas

#contradictory #forces #live #many #possible

It's a weird city because the uglier the weather, the more beautiful the city. And the uglier the buildings, the more coherent the city. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#because #buildings #city #coherent #more

We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#incredible #live #perfect #stillness #urgency

But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#become #category #difficult #getting #more

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

— Rem Koolhaas

#been #beginning #drivers #escape #ghetto

If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#endure #reputation #sit #things #try

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things. ↗

— Rem Koolhaas

#architects #luxury #many #reject #significant

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

#any #architectural #architecture #between #continuing