The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue.
More Quotes from Rem Koolhaas:
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.Rem Koolhaas
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.
Rem Koolhaas
Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.
Rem Koolhaas
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
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
If you have this reputation you can sit back and endure it, or you can try to do things with it.
Rem Koolhaas
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Keywords: assemble, luxuryI believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me.
Pete Seeger
Nobody now is going from department to another department. Only Walt did that. I was very fond of him, really.
John Hench
I didn't think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that.
Jock Sturges