Famous Quotes

"People can inhabit anything. And they can be miserable in anything and ecstatic in anything. More and more I think that architecture has nothing to do with it. Of course, that's both liberating and alarming."

Rem Koolhaas on Architecture

More quotes about Architecture

• "We shape our buildings thereafter they shape us."

  Winston Churchill on Architecture

• "Whatever good things we build end up building us."

  Jim Rohn on Architecture

• "I don't build in order to have clients. I have clients in order to build."

  Ayn Rand on Architecture

• "A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom."

  Ayn Rand on Architecture

• "Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age."

  Frank Lloyd Wright on Architecture

More quotes by Rem Koolhaas

• "It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces."

• "Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things."

• "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."

• "Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning."

• "The intellectual force of the West is still dominant, but other cultures are getting stronger. I expect that we will develop a new way of thinking in architecture and urban planning, and that less will be based on our models."