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. Rem Koolhaas Read Quote
Asia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it will become a declining trend. They were almost never necessary. Rem Koolhaas Read Quote
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. Rem Koolhaas Read Quote
The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding. Rem Koolhaas Read Quote
If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it. Rem Koolhaas Read Quote
Each building has to be beautiful, but cheap and fast, but it lasts forever. That is already an incredible battery of seemingly contradictory demands. So yes, I’m definitely perhaps contradictory person, but I operate in very contradictory times. Rem Koolhaas Read Quote
The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt. Rem Koolhaas Read Quote
The acceptance of certain realities doesn’t preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs. Rem Koolhaas Read Quote
Architecture is a rare collective profession: it’s always exercised by groups. There is an essential modesty, which is a complete contradiction to the notion of a star. Rem Koolhaas Read Quote