Rem Koolhaas Quotes

And then, build a bustling wonderful city of the 21st century, with a restoration of a spectacular skyline, which Manhattan, of course, needs. So, that is really the design as a whole.

I have the word 'Shameless' tattooed on my chest.

Manhattan has no choice but the skyward extrusion of the Grid itself; only the Skyscraper offers business the wide-open spaces of a man-made Wild West, a frontier in the sky.

the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. ... At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go out in a blaze of style.

Modern life demands, and is waiting for, a new kind of plan, both for the house and the city.

There is a virtue in shamelessness.

Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful.

Hippodamus, son of Euryphon, a native of Miletus, invented the art of planning and laid out the street plan of Piraeus.

Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.

Beauty or beast, the modern skyscraper is a major force with a strong magnetic field. It draws into its physical being all of the factors that propel and characterize modern civilization. The skyscraper is the point where art and the city meet.

I know that I have balls. I have bigger balls than a lot of the men that I meet. I'm just a ballsy motherf - ker. I'm not afraid of pushing boundaries. That's what you have to do to become an icon.

[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.

Stand up, speak out, and be bold. Screw political correctness. Never let them tell you to sit down and shut up.

Here's how my brain works: It's stupidity, followed by self-hatred, and then further analysis.

There is no need for me to curse you -the murderer survives the victim only to learn that it was himself that he longed to be rid of. Hatred is self-hatred.

I guess that is the strange part of the human brain that people have studied for eons - is hatred and self-hatred. You can convince people that the problem is not coming from the top but is, rather, being created by the people who are being oppressed.

...Skyscraper National Park

Like any place in Reality, the Street is subject to development. Developers can build their own small streets feeding off of the main one. They can build buildings, parks, signs, as well as things that do not exist in Reality, such as vast hovering overhead light shows and special neighborhoods where the rules of three-dimensional spacetime are ignored.

Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.

One cannot completely avoid this landmark character with large buildings such as these. But the city itself is also gigantic.

Call me any name you like I will never deny it.

Some authors regard morality in the same light as we regard modern architecture. Convenience is the first thing to be looked for.

We hated pretentiousness; it was a form of self-hatred.

Courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.

A skyscraper is at the same time a triumph of the machine and a tremendous emotional experience, almost breath-taking. Not merely its height but its mass and proportions are the result of an emotion, as well as of calculation.