Rem Koolhaas Architecture Quotations

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

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.

Not many architects have the luxury to reject significant things.

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.

I wanted to disconnect from contemporary architecture

There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.

Beauty isn't what I'm primarily interested in [in architecture]. I think appropriateness is more important.

Architecture is a dangerous mix of power and importance.

The beauty of my profession [architecture] lies in its randomness and surprise. And don't think I can choose my projects. I have to build what's offered to me.

Infrastructure is much more important than architecture.