“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.”
— Rem Koolhaas
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“I feel however, that we architects have a special duty and mission… (to contribute) to the socio-cultural development of architecture and urban planning.”
— Kenzo Tange
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“The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.”
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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“At a certain point, I just put the building and the art impulse together. I decided that building was a legitimate way to make sculpture.”
— Martin Puryear
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“The aesthetic of architecture has to be rooted in a broader idea about human activities like walking, relaxing and communicating. Architecture thinks about how these activities can be given added value.”
— Thom Mayne
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“A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.”
— Lord Byron
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“I am but an architectural composer.”
— Alexander Jackson Davis
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“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.”
— Rem Koolhaas
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“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.”
— Marcus V. Pollio
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“Every building is a prototype. No two are alike.”
— Helmut Jahn
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“Escape from the architecture ghetto is one of the major drivers and has been from the very beginning.”
— Rem Koolhaas
Author: Rem Koolhaas
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