Rem Koolhaas Quotes

Crossrail is a prime example of infrastructure. It is a rather deadly word, but I think it is exciting stuff, the civil engineering which makes Britain tick - the bridges, tunnels, power and water networks, which bind us together.

People think our work is monumental because it's art, but human beings do much bigger things: they build giant airports, highways for thousands of miles, much, much bigger than what we create.

Architecture begins when you place two bricks carefully together.

Scientists are people who build the Brooklyn Bridge and then buy it.

I didn't know what architecture was except that I lived in a house. I don't even think that I knew the word for a long time. My dad funneled me into engineering because it was his background.

It's fascinating to me how they build bridges or tunnels.

Construction will always be needed. You will always need to renovate projects.

There will be a focus on infrastructure. The American people had elected a builder to be President of the United States. We're going to work with members of Congress to move forward legislation to fund our infrastructure more effectively in the country.

Tunnels, our ports, our airports - they need work. And there are millions of jobs to be done.

Buildings have been made because of man.

Ninety percent of the buildings we live in and around aren't architecture. No, that's not right - 98 percent.

Architecture is by definition a very collaborative process.

We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.

I'm very interested in architecture.

I love architecture.

When I was little, I wanted to be a civil engineer. Not a ballerina, not a doctor, a civil engineer. I was such a nerd.

The Engineer Corps is charged with all construction, including light railways and roads.

Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.

Building design isn't trendy.

I wanted a real profession. And I'd always been interested in architecture and in design and in, really, what makes things work. And understanding what's kind of behind the walls and why things stand up and some things don't.

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

Infrastructure sector is all about building assets for the country. It is part of nation building.

Every new development, highway, railroad, steamship line, building operation, whether it be a drainage project in old Greece or a new water system in Peru, means an added use of the automobile.

I don't think architecture is radical. How can something that takes years and costs millions be radical?

Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences, and adorned with much and varied learning; by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.