Top 42 Quotes by Rem Koolhaas

About Rem Koolhaas

These are some quotes by Dutch author Rem Koolhaas Architect, who was born on November 17, 1944.

The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue.

The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue.

Rem Koolhaas

Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate.

Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate.

Rem Koolhaas

The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt.

The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt.

Rem Koolhaas

There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.

There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.

Rem Koolhaas

That has been my entire life story, running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated.

That has been my entire life story, running against the current and running with the current. Sometimes running with the current is underestimated.

Rem Koolhaas

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

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

Rem Koolhaas

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

One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity.

One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity.

Rem Koolhaas

When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it has become utterly independent - contained, controlled, surveyed.

When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it has become utterly independent - contained, controlled, surveyed.

Rem Koolhaas

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.

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

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