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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.
— Rem Koolhaas
Tags: four, project, architecture, culture

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We live in an almost perfect stillness and work with incredible urgency.
— Rem Koolhaas
Tags: stillness, urgency, perfect, live, work
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
Tags: quality, truth, beauty, best
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
Tags: bad, smart, i-am, future
But now sustainability is such a political category that it's getting more and more difficult to think about it in a serious way. Sustainability has become an ornament.
— Rem Koolhaas
Tags: serious, way, think, political
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
Tags: life-story, against, story, sometimes, life
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