Rem Koolhaas Quotes

It's important for people who criticise architects - whether what they build is or isn't to your taste - to appreciate how they devote themselves and put everything into bringing a building into existence.

I love architecture.

People outside the profession of architecture perhaps often lack the understanding of how their physical environment comes into being. What are the processes, the concerns and considerations? What are the parameters that shape the world around them?

Ultimately, the artistic part of architecture has always interested me.

But after the time there I'd had it with fashion again, so I left to go to architecture school in a summer course at Harvard, which didn't last very long.

I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

I'm fascinated with design. I realized early that I had no talent in that direction, but I love talking with architects and designers about what they do. I appreciate applied creativity as a source of pleasure and meaning.

As an architect, you design for the present, with an awareness of the past, for a future which is essentially unknown.

Architecture is invention.

The future of architecture is culture.

I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead.

Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.

For me, architecture is the means, not the end. It's a means of making different life forms possible.

I am immersed in architecture all day, working in my office or teaching.

I like to play with architecture! It's my favorite game.

I'm working on a school of architecture in China. It's rare that an architect gets to design a school of architecture, and here I get to do it. I'm so pleased that they asked me.

The only job that was ever of interest to me other than filmmaking is architecture.

I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture - you always can hope for another project to design.

Some people think architecture is about the genius sketch; I don't. Great architecture is a collaboration among a lot of people over a long period of time.

I see the Beijing National Stadium as an architectural project. I accepted Herzog and De Meuron's invitation to collaborate on the design, and our proposal won the competition. From beginning to end, I stayed with the project. I am committed to fostering relationships between a city and its architecture.

The best ideas make you want to say 'yes' and 'no' in the same breath.

I think about architecture all the time. That's the problem. But I've always been like that. I dream it sometimes.

I was always really geeky about design and buildings. Always into architecture as a kid.

Architects think that beauty is a crime.

When I work on sculpture, I don't have to worry about function. When I work on a piece of architecture, I must think about function all the time.