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Our society can no longer tolerate ugliness. You see that in cars, sofas and women. [But] ugliness also has a right to exist.
— Rem Koolhaas
The good is not a category that interests me.
— Rem Koolhaas
One of our theories is that one can offset this excessive compulsion toward the spectacular with a return to simplicity.
— Rem Koolhaas
Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important.
— Rem Koolhaas
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Nigeria [in 1990] was all rumour, an unbelievable amount of rumour - largely about crime and almost mythical manifestations of evil.
— Rem Koolhaas
Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.
— Rem Koolhaas
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.
— Rem Koolhaas
One cannot completely avoid this landmark character with large buildings such as these. But the city itself is also gigantic.
— Rem Koolhaas
Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.
— Rem Koolhaas
There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.
— Rem Koolhaas
The areas of consensus shift unbelievably fast; the bubbles of certainty are constantly exploding.
— Rem Koolhaas
If less is more, maybe nothing is everything.
— Rem Koolhaas
Our office acts like a kind of educational establishment and we are very careful who we educate.
— Rem Koolhaas
Find optimism in the inevitable
— Rem Koolhaas
The stronger the identity, the more it imprisons, the more it resists expansion, interpretation, renewal, contradiction.
— Rem Koolhaas
The cosmetic is cosmic.
— Rem Koolhaas
Lagos was not very inviting even to Lagosians. It was considered a no-go zone, almost in its entirety.
— Rem Koolhaas
I like fashion, whether or not it's overpriced, because it creates a sense of the sublime with relatively few means.
— Rem Koolhaas
That has been another interesting discovery: that basically a city [Lagos] could recover from a really deep, deep, deep pit.
— Rem Koolhaas
The work in S, M, L, XL was almost suicidal. It required so much effort that our office almost went bankrupt.
— Rem Koolhaas
Talk about beauty and you get boring answers, but talk about ugliness and things get interesting.
— Rem Koolhaas
I wanted to disconnect from contemporary 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
The acceptance of certain realities doesn't preclude idealism. It can lead to certain breakthroughs.
— Rem Koolhaas
Criticism per se does not worry me. I've always solicited it as part of the design process.
— Rem Koolhaas
The luxury of our position now is that we can almost assemble any team to address any issue.
— Rem Koolhaas
It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.
— Rem Koolhaas
Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.
— Rem Koolhaas
Let's put it this way: One can be happy or unhappy in a building. But some buildings make us more depressed than others.
— Rem Koolhaas
Designs are increasingly winning competitions because they are literally green, and because somewhere they feature a small windmill.
— Rem Koolhaas
Without a tighter union, Europe will disintegrate
— Rem Koolhaas
In the end, there will be little else for us to do but shop.
— Rem Koolhaas
