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Rem Koolhaas

Dutch

November 17, 1944

Architect

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Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.

Tags: Architecture More Than

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The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.

Tags: Constantly Fast Shift

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.

Tags: Because More Beautiful

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.

Tags: Life Never Same

I am incredibly bad at predicting the future; I am only smart enough to observe the present and listen to my intuition about tendencies.

Tags: Future About Only

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.

Tags: Architecture Any Years

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.

Tags: About Think Really