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. Rem Koolhaas Read Quote
A building has at least two lives – the one imagined by its maker and the life it lives afterward – and they are never the same. Rem Koolhaas Read Quote
Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning. Rem Koolhaas Read Quote
One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity. Rem Koolhaas Read Quote
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 Read Quote
It is not possible to live in this age if you don’t have a sense of many contradictory forces. Rem Koolhaas Read Quote
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. Rem Koolhaas Read Quote
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 Read Quote