We say we want to create beauty, identity, quality, singularity. And yet, maybe in truth these cities that we have are desired. Maybe their very characterlessness provides the best context for living.
Rem Koolhaas
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- It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.
- Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.
- 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.
- 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.
- Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.