Rem Koolhaas
Dutch architect, former journalist and screenwriter who studied architecture at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and co-founded the Office for Metropolitan Architecture.
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Bigness is no longer part of any urban tissue. (...) Its subtext is fuck context.
No money, no details. Just concepts.
Find optimism in the inevitable.
We were making sand castles. Now we swim in the sea that swept them away.
Japan lives with drastic segregation between the sublime, the ugly, and the utterly without qualities. Dominance of the last 2 categories makes mere presence of the first stunning: when beauty 'happens', it is absolutely surprising.
Architecture is a dangerous mixture of power and impotence.
The city is no longer. We can leave the theatre now.
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