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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

Nigeria [in 1990] was all rumour, an unbelievable amount of rumour - largely about crime and almost mythical manifestations of evil. — Rem Koolhaas

You need to look at inequality as a typical condition of modern society. — 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

The Metropolis strives to reach a mythical point where the world is completely fabricated by man, so that it absolutely coincides with his desires. — Rem Koolhaas

Infrastructure is much more important than architecture. — Rem Koolhaas

Asia is still dominated by skyscrapers. I hope that, in European cities, it will become a declining trend. They were almost never necessary. — Rem Koolhaas

The word 'celebrity' and the word 'architect' are basically incompatible. — Rem Koolhaas

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. — 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

We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency. — 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

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things. — 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

We felt it was very important for an entity like CCTV to make its presence felt ... To generate a space and to define a space, that is the main thing. — 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

The City is an addictive machine from which there is no escape — 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

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

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

Journalists seem mostly interested in what brand of shoes I wear. — 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. — Rem Koolhaas

In the end, there will be little else for us to do but shop. — Rem Koolhaas

Nobody should be anything, but because I once had a different profession and I'm interested in writing, I took it upon me. — Rem Koolhaas