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Architects work in two ways. ...

Architects work in two ways. One is to respond precisely to a client's needs or demands. Another is to look at what the client asks and reinterpret it.

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Rem Koolhaas

All important architecture of...

All important architecture of the last century was strongly influenced by political systems. Look at the Soviet system, with its constructivism and Stalinism, Weimer with its Modern style, Mussolini and, of course, the Nazis and Albert Speer's colossal structures. Today's architecture is subservient to the market and its terms. The market has supplanted ideology. Architecture has turned into a spectacle. It has to package itself and no longer has significance as anything but a landmark.

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Rem Koolhaas

Manhattan has generated a sha...

Manhattan has generated a shameless architecture that has been loved in direct proportion to its defiant lack of self-hatred, has been respected exactly to the degree that it went too far.

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Rem Koolhaas

The people from the suburbs a...

The people from the suburbs are bringing along their suburban values: cleanliness, orderliness, safety - dullness, in other words. As a result, urban areas are being hollowed out. Just look at Times Square in New York. No more sex shops, no drugs, no homeless people. The area is clinically clean and incredibly dull.

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Rem Koolhaas

Let's put it this way: One ca...

Let's put it this way: One can be happy or unhappy in a building. But some buildings make us more depressed than others.

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Rem Koolhaas

Everyone is talking about sus...

Everyone is talking about sustainability and resilience, yet all that knowledge is thrown in the bin. [Lagos is] a unique case, but also a test case. It's unbelievably unique, but also it's now considered with a number of really generic opinions, generic solution, generic expectations.

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Rem Koolhaas

You need to look at inequalit...

You need to look at inequality as a typical condition of modern society.

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Rem Koolhaas

The stronger the identity, th...

The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.

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Rem Koolhaas

That has been another interes...

That has been another interesting discovery: that basically a city [Lagos] could recover from a really deep, deep, deep pit.

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Rem Koolhaas

One of our theories is that o...

One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity.

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Rem Koolhaas

The thing is that I have a re...

The thing is that I have a really intense, almost compulsive need to record. But it doesn't end there, because what I record is somehow transformed into a creative thing. There is a continuity. Recording is the beginning of a conceptual production. I am somehow collapsing the two - recording and producing - into a single event.

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Rem Koolhaas

What is now called 'green arc...

What is now called 'green architecture' is an opportunistic caricature of a much deeper consideration of the issues related to sustainability that architecture has been engaged with for many years. It was one of the first professions that was deeply concerned with these issues and that had an intellectual response to them.

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Rem Koolhaas

I'd say that my profession en...

I'd say that my profession ends where architectural thinking ends - architectural thinking in terms of thinking about programs and organizational structure. These abstractions play a role in many other disciplines, and those disciplines are now defining their 'architectures' as well.

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Rem Koolhaas

When air conditioning, escala...

When air conditioning, escalators, and advertising appeared, shopping expanded its scale, but also limited its spontaneity. And it became much more predictable, almost scientific. What had once been the most surprising became the most manipulated.

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Rem Koolhaas

It's a weird city because the...

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.

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Rem Koolhaas

The great problem of the conc...

The great problem of the concert hall is that the shoebox is the ideal shape for acoustics but that no architect worth their names wants to build a shoebox.

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Rem Koolhaas

The acceptance of certain rea...

The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.

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Rem Koolhaas

The work in S, M, L, XL was a...

The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt.

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Rem Koolhaas

Influence is a very unpleasan...

Influence is a very unpleasant subject and I deal with it in a maybe irresponsible way, which is to really ignore it. It would be a nightmare if we started to really think about it; it would tie our hands, it would tie everyone else's hands.

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Rem Koolhaas

Miami Beach is a completely i...

Miami Beach is a completely interesting hybrid because it is, on the one hand, a resort and, on the other hand, a real city. This condition of city and water on two sides I think is really amazing. And in the heart of that city, it has put an enormous convention center, an enormous physical presence.

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