I think one of the important evolutions is that we no longer feel compulsively the need to argue, or to justify things on a kind of rational level. We are much more willing to admit that certain things are completely instinctive and others are really intellectual.

Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living. Other members include Nokia chairman Jorma Ollila former European Commissioner Mario Monti and former president of Poland Lech Wałęsa. However such cynicism can alternatively be read as a "realism" about the transformation of cultural life where airports and even museums (due to finance problems) rely just as much on operating gift shops.

Remment Lucas "Rem" Koolhaas (/ˈrɛm ˈkɔːlhɑːs/; born (1944-11-17)17 November 1944) is a Dutch architect architectural theorist urbanist and Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University. In 2005 he co-founded Volume Magazine together with Mark Wigley and Ole Bouman.